Originally Posted by jack'smom
The problem is that by high school, expectations for academic success are even higher. Colleges would want to also see that your child is a National Merit Semi-Finalist on the PSAT, an AP scholar (taking lots of AP classes), going to Nationals in Math or Science Bowl or the Intel Science Fair Competition.

Wow. This seems quite depressing to me. Like our kids have to be workaholics when they're eleven just to get into college.