Want your child to get into college and have a good life? Here’s how.

Good morning,

Today we are sharing an article from The Washington Post which sheds some insight on the crushing expectations for most high school students in today's society when it comes into getting into college. The article mentions a report which calls for change that needs to happen with teachers and parents alike, in order to allow students to explore deeper commitments and meanings to their communities, not just adding activity after activity to fill up their resume.

"To be clear, none of the recommendations in the report are new values for colleges admissions. Even the most elite schools have always favored depth over breadth and quality over quantity, whether in courses or extracurricular activities. They have always appreciated demonstrations of kindness and empathy and deeper, sustained commitments to service have always held more weight in admissions than one-off stints or expensive missionary trips. This is not actually news. What is news is that colleges are saying it loud and clear through this report, trying to convey to parents that yes, they mean it: who your kid is every day of the week is important. Your kid is more than a test score or their grades. Your kid is also more than the name of the college he or she will attend."

"The true way to relieve the crushing pressure of college admissions has been within our power all along: we must do the work on ourselves as parents and to follow our kids’ leads while we gently guide and support them – not to get them into a good college, but to get them to be good people." But as I often say, "it's more important to raise a good person than a good student."  (To read the full article please visit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/04/05/want-your-child-to-get-into-college-and-have-a-good-life-heres-how/ )

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