<p>She sounds like a fabulous kid–both smart and engaged. You should be proud.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t disparage the horse thing. A kid in my D’s school did a lot of riding, wrote her essay on the wisdom she had learned from the older women at her barn and is now at Yale.</p>
<p>I would take my cues from her. She may decide next year, once she’s seen high school to change some of her outside interests. </p>
<p>The overcommitting is a tough call. You may have to wait until you actually see some grade deterioration.</p>