Usually, yes. Which is why colleges are full of it when it comes to recognizing privilege. But I also know two kids with higher scores who got rejected when a lower stat kid got in because she “appeared” to be less advantaged. They made assumptions about the kids based on zip code and didn’t notice that my kid worked while the kid they took had free internships in a far away city which required financial support from her parents. All these non profits and internships require parents with connections and/or money. But colleges don’t admit that and pat themselves on the back for uplifting less advantaged kids. |
A kid with great stats, great grades, a bunch of ECs, a job, and volunteer work isn’t “sitting on their butt”, they’re just maxing out what they CAN control HONESTLY and don’t have parents padding their resume. I’d take that any day over a kid whose parent calls in a favor to get their kid an “impressive”internship. Competitive schools are full of liars and cheats for this reason. Then the students become liars and cheats with powerful degrees and damage society over their self centered greed and need to feel special. |
Look, DCUM is a parenting board. You can troll this board forever, looking for direct evidence of what people are saying, but you will rarely find it. You can be obtuse and stubborn all you want, and direct your children however you want. Some people know how to gather secondary sources of information (what students around them did and where they got in, also possibly what certain AOs shared, in publications or meetings), but you apparently want more than that. It's a futile exercise. You're going to get supremely frustrated. So you can continue being rude to people on this thread, or you can calm down and start strategizing with the knowledge you have. |
TBH, you seem to be a troll or a crazy person who doesn’t have a realistic sense of who works in admissions offices, how little time is spent reviewing applications, or anything else of substance. So don’t really care what you think or say, and most posters here seem to feel the same. |
Yeah dig stupid me, asking for evidence from people making claims. What an idiot I am. I should just sit back and let people make their outrageous claims and not worry if that badly influences some families' decisions. I'll stay out of the way and let you tell everyone why some kid you barely know was accepted by Harvard, a place you have no experience with. Something about cupcakes, I think. Sounds legit. |
Ad hominem because you can’t answer because your post is BS. Just as I suspected. |