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Top Universities and admission requirements

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Research at top universities, Harvard and Stanford, has shown that their admission requirements are harmful to students. But have they changed them?It’s no secret, admission to the top universities in the United States is very, very competitive. But the fact that these admission requirements are detrimental to students and society is less well known, even after all the good press Harvard University got for its report, Turning the Tide. 

At Stanford University, Challenge Success  has been trying for a decade to highlight these corrosive educational policies and help parents and high schools alleviate the detrimental effects.

But has either university taken the advice of their own experts and changed their admission requirements?
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Are you dreading the packed schedule of school activities and homework?

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Back to school is now in full swing! If you haven’t already started, your kids have probably at least picked up their schedules. Or they might be frantically trying to finish their summer projects. In the last week, I’ve heard so many parents mention that they’re dreading the start of the school year. I think the parents might even be dreading it more than the kids!

Are you dreading the school year busyness? (Yes, I looked it up. That’s really a word. “Business” doesn’t mean the same thing that it used to, and so now there is also “busyness.”) Are you dreading the calendar running your life? The hours of homework? The school activities with early morning and late night practice? The lack of sleep?

It might be time to take a good look at why your kids, or you, have signed up for all the activities and advanced classes that are taking up all your time and then some….

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