<p>An article giving a commentary on how some "applicants are becoming supplicants"</p>
<p>Very nice post</p>
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Students become supplicants, not applicants, doing the right things for the wrong reasons.
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<p>But what if somebody were to stop doing their extra-curricular activities and community service projects to do only the one activity they enjoyed, which is perhaps, not all that interesting or prestigious. Is it better to do the wrong things for the right reasons? </p>
<p>The article was very interesting.</p>
<p>There are no such things as "the wrong things" (not including obviously wrong things like killing, etc)</p>
<p>"Interesting" is objective. If a person devotes his time to an activity, obviously it's interesting to him.</p>
<p>what if the guy likes video games and starts a video game club and spends a lot of time on it?</p>
<p>I have heard again and again that colleges would rather see one or a few activities done deeply than lots of activities done without passion.</p>
<p>my experience w/ my son: a college admissions person said 'what else have you done besides violin ?' after giving a violin intensive set of ECs. so much for the mile deep and not wide preference vs the mile wide and a foot deep.</p>
<p>so more like half mile wide, half mile deep? lol</p>
<p>Well if your passion is video games (like mine was for awhile), even if you win a lot of tournaments and stuff colleges won't care because it's not academic at all.</p>
<p>How unfortunate for me...</p>
<p>Well if you can make money and be successful by winning tournaments and stuff, why do you need college?</p>
<p>College is not everyone's goal in life.</p>
<p>"Well if you can make money and be successful by winning tournaments and stuff, why do you need college?</p>
<p>College is not everyone's goal in life."</p>
<p>-That's incredibly rare and by the way...we're all posting on a forum that is centered around college admissions...do you really think that people here don't want to go to college? My question about video games was about how it would look in college admissions and was not referring to professional gamers</p>
<p>OMG THAT FIRST PICTURE</p>
<p>All those applications....>_<</p>
<p>Great article though, I totally agree, even though most ppl going for the ivy league are still only caring about 'packaging' themselves and not about anything they actually do</p>