UC Requirement or staying with EC?

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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. usually the kids who are ranked first and second are the ones with fewer ECs.

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<p>Which is why high school ‘rankings’ are rather silly and left over from the dark ages, IMO. Taking a fourth year of Orchestra to be First Chair senior year should not hurt your rank/gpa, but it does in schools that give bonus points/higher ranking to AP/IB coursework.</p>