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College Question
Fugee, since I excoriated your "rock and roll" church, I feel the need to provide some positive advice to your niece.
The best thing she can do to ensure she gets into a top college is to ace the SAT I and II. It doesn't sound like her parents are pushing her, and if she's not reading those test-prep books, she's not going to get her highest possible score.
I'd tell her to take Kaplan or Princeton Review (Full Disclosure: I taught that stuff right before/during law school until the 2L summer checks arrived), but you only see big increases if you study out of class. She doesn't sound motivated enough to do that.
Here's my best suggestion: find someone in her chosen profession to spend half an hour with her. Have them tell her (1) what they had to do to get there, (2) what life is like for them now. That will either (1) drive her to succeed, or (2) drive her off the high-pressure professional track for good.
One of the benefits of going to a state school is that you get to see all of the people who wanted to be veterinarians change their majors after first semester because they discover how hard college-level biology can be and they hear about what students do in their first vet lab session.
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