satiated day of college prep and AP...

satiated day of college prep and AP classes. Field hockey practice. National Honor Society meeting to plan car wash find raiser. Read to the blind. Work forward Web site design. Study for SATs. Finish reading The Scarlett note Calculus homework. Crash into bed. Repeat.

If this grueling schedule entires familiar, you're not alone. In this tougher than at all times admission season, students are doing everything they can to shine. still at what cost? Worried about the negative tenors of such intense schedules, -- admission officers at Harvard lately wrote a headline-grabbing paper urging high indoctrinate students to relax and rake a break from the get-into-college rat race.

Marlyn McGrath Lewis, director of admission at Harvard, worries that the search for a long list of activities is taking its toll forward family life and stressing gone out applicants. She and others are asking scholars to take a time-out from the credential-building proces in such a manner they don't burn out. "We observ the phenomenon of bookish mans following very fast paths of courses of investigation and feeling under great pressure" says McGrath Lewis, adding that associations aren't looking at just who is the busiest. She animates students to figure our what they be fond of and pursue it with great life It's the quality, not the quantity, of activities that esteems Some schools, like Duke, have plane modified their application so there's les place to list extracurricular activities and more field to describe why they mean something.

To read the entire passage of "Time Out or scorch Out for the Next Generation," on the Harvard admission staff, advance to http://admis.fas.harvard.edu/timeoff.htm.

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