My son has straight As and is a Junior right now. He has been in the school musical and band but doesn't have other ECs.
He works part-time. He should do very well on the PSAT based on his practice tests.
But it sounds from following CC for awhile that "regular" smart kids don't stand much of a chance of getting in. By that I mean students with top grades and test scores with average ECs and volunteering. I know the ivy leagues are always looking for the prodigies: kids who created a cure for cancer in their basement, who single-handedly pulled an underdeveloped country out of poverty or wrote a Pulitzer prize-winning novel at age 14, etc.
So does anyone who is "just smart" ever make it in- maybe with good recommendations or a knockout essay?
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