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Originally Posted by alum
Munchkin is absolutely correct. Schools want geographic diversity as well as ethnic and socioeconomic diversity. I interview DC area prospectives for my alma mater. These kids' resumes are amazing. My sibling is about to move to the midAtlantic region from the Upper Peninsula. This will make my sib's kid's Dartmouth dream so much more difficult. However, the kids will now have a much vaster choice of AP classes, ECs, etc than at the UP high school. It will just be tougher to stand out amongst the competition in our area.
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This is a little off-topic, but when you interview, do you see that certain kids just don't stand out, and you can almost predict what ECs they're going to have, what they major in, etc? I've only been interviewing for a few years now, but I can almost predict which ones are going to get in, and which ones aren't.
Again off-topic...did you find the Alexandra Robbins book to be pretty true of what it's like for kids at top DC schools? It's definitely true of my hometown kids, but nowhere near what it's like for these NYC kids. Scary! Unless I have a lot of money, I don't think I can raise my kids in NYC and expect them to follow in my footsteps.