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Our school newspaper and local paper did stories on kids who got into Ivy's. Definitely does seem like these national stories are much more frequent of late, but I doubt it's the kids promoting themselves.

I think media consumers like reading these stories, probably for a variety of reasons, and CNN et al don't mind writing them.

When I think about it, it's hard to argue about kids being given attention to which colleges offers them and which offers they accept for academic reasons.  I mean, we pay a lot of attention here to which high schoolers pick which colleges for athletic reasons (which yes, may also have some academic bearing too).  It'd be great if they had a signing date and TV exposure for, say, the National Merit Top 300 too.
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Personally I'd rather a lot less attention be paid to both those things.

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[quote author=dabigv link=topic=16747.msg191286#msg191286 date=1491502128]
Our school newspaper and local paper did stories on kids who got into Ivy's. Definitely does seem like these national stories are much more frequent of late, but I doubt it's the kids promoting themselves.

I think media consumers like reading these stories, probably for a variety of reasons, and CNN et al don't mind writing them.

When I think about it, it's hard to argue about kids being given attention to which colleges offers them and which offers they accept for academic reasons.  I mean, we pay a lot of attention here to which high schoolers pick which colleges for athletic reasons (which yes, may also have some academic bearing too).  It'd be great if they had a signing date and TV exposure for, say, the National Merit Top 300 too.
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Personally I'd rather a lot less attention be paid to both those things.