It's funny because colleges will spout things about equity and helping the disadvantaged but the emphasis on esoteric extracurriculars is defacto classism. I g

It's funny because colleges will spout things about equity and helping the disadvantaged but the emphasis on esoteric extracurriculars is defacto classism. I grew up in a small nowhere town and played JV & rec league sports (basically free) while working a part time job from when I was like 15. So my extracurriculars don't really count, and were cash flow positive. These days being in NYC, my friends kids are adopting expensive signaling hobbies, going to Oxford & Princeton pre-college summer prep programs, using parents connections to get high school unpaid internships, and all sorts of other time & money intensive endeavors that could easily cost $50K by the time the kid is applying to college.