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When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Classmates Colleges Feel Good Had High High School Like Look Order Pile Private School Tutors Use

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Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Across Been Came Country Doing Kids Lectures Lot Out Since Talking

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Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Because Busy Conform Kids Know More Necessarily Popular Real Trying Who

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I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: About Access Around Audience Become Facebook Feel Hate High High School Image Imaginary Keep Makes Myspace Now Online Psychologists Real School Seem Talk Teens Them Think Time Up Would

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It is unacceptable that the system we rely on to develop children into well-adjusted, learned, cultured adults allows drones to dominate and increasingly devalues freethinkers.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Adult Children Develop Dominate Drones Increasingly Learned Rely System Unacceptable

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When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready - at least, that's how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: Best Government Healthcare Hospitals Hotels How Interpret Least Mandate Many Nurses Personal Ready Seem

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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