<p>Northstarmom, when I said that all colleges say they want well-rounded students, I don't mean they say they want ONLY well-rounded students. It just means they have a place in their admissions calculations for being on the debate team, on the wrestling team, helping charities, etc. What I'm saying is why don't at least a FEW colleges in the US give total academic merit a try? In a lot of other countries this is the way it works, so it's not a revolutionary concept. Certainly out of the thousands of colleges in the US, we could afford to have a few where higher grades and test scores are all that matter, not that you were secretary of the bull$**t-EC-of-the-week club.</p>