<p>^^</p>
<p>By the way, no one pushes kids into those EC-type classes. Those kids are there because they want to be and they do have schedule issues. There is a huge downside of having those activities as classes. It means that top students have to choose between something academic and something like being editor-in chief of the newspaper (in my son’s case) and that they have to lower their GPA and ranking to pursue leadership in those ECs. So usually the kids who are ranked first and second are the ones with fewer ECs.</p>