What do you guys think about the insane ordeal most people who go to ivy-type schools have to go through to get to those schools? (I know a lot of us are jumping through these hoops right now.) More and more people are applying to college every year and admissions to top schools are getting more selective. I just wonder if there will be a breaking point sometime. Some kids are getting their childhoods taken away, filled with school and structured extracurriculars with no time for just playing. At the other end of the spectrum, many more people are graduating from high school barely able to read and write. There's got to be some way to close this gap, for 99% of students to come somewhere between illiterate and psychotic.

Do you think too many kids will go crazy and some admissions officers will say "enough is enough" and somehow stop the madness of people taking 7 APs and 500 extracurriculars a year?

Will the number of schools of ivy-quality schools increase dramatically, thereby accomodating the increasing numbers of college students and making admissions less crazy?

Will kids somehow miraculously start getting uniformly well-educated by the public school system?

Will it just go on like it is now?

What does everyone think?

Elise