An interesting article read in tandem with the previous story. To paraphrase a well-known college counselor in Atlanta, I think that summers should be productive, but in a way that relates to things that a student genuinely wishes he or she could have had time for during the high school academic year. And there should be time left over to rest, recharge and be a kid.
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In general, colleges are much more concerned about how a kid grows from a summer program than what, exactly, they did. Your child might have an experience that is so impactful that she writes about it in a college essay, or maybe it is something she mentions in a short answer question from a college or in an interview on campus. Or maybe she just expands her world view and returns home a better and more interesting human.
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I think we all need to get comfortable with the inability to make any specific plans regarding the physical aspects of college attendance this coming year.
In general, colleges are much more concerned about how a kid grows from a summer program than what, exactly, they did. Your child might have an experience that is so impactful that she writes about it in a college essay, or maybe it is something she mentions in a short answer question from a college or in an interview on campus. Or maybe she just expands her world view and returns home a better and more interesting human.
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