Student Reveals That Stanford Rescinded College Offer Months After Due To A ‘Lie’ On Her Application

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Also, what state has daycares for exclusively special needs kids that allows high schoolers to volunteer?
at least one, given that the applicant did volunteer there.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also, what state has daycares for exclusively special needs kids that allows high schoolers to volunteer?
at least one, given that the applicant did volunteer there.


Psst: I have a bridge to sell you- dirt cheap.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also, what state has daycares for exclusively special needs kids that allows high schoolers to volunteer?
at least one, given that the applicant did volunteer there.


Psst: I have a bridge to sell you- dirt cheap.


How cheap are we talking here? Always wanted to own a bridge.
Anonymous
That's what she gets! Don't lie about helping special needs babies!
Anonymous
Yawn. Stanford should audit the male applicants.
Anonymous
I thought this was shown to be false?

There’s media surrounding it and the guy has gotten a ton of business for his college counseling services because of this TikTok.

Smart guy.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think this is fabricated by the guy (Tineo college prep consulting) to get TikTok clicks….


Exactly. That was my first thought. A random website gets this story from a tick Tok influencer who allegedly was told this story by the student. Not buying it for a second.

It doesn’t even sound plausible. How is a high schooler going to put in 12 hours a week at any daycare. They are open M-F and close between around 5 or 5:30. That would be over 2 hours a day. Unless the student’s high school ends early and the student never ever had to stay after school logistically it doesn’t even make sense. And there are very very few special needs daycare. After 3 years old students who have disabilities are provided services through public schools.


So, I agree it's probably for clicks.

But as a public school teacher, I knew plenty of teenagers covering the 4 - 6 shift at local daycares as their part time job.

I could name a number of daycares for kids with disabilities in the DC area. These days most of them are inclusive, but places like Karasik (run by the ARC), or Easter Seals whose primary mission is serving children with disabilities. Even those kids who get services from the public school usually need daycare as well, as those hours are usually shorter than a work day.


The most unbelievable thing is that Stanford would check
Anonymous
also could be typo
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think this is fabricated by the guy (Tineo college prep consulting) to get TikTok clicks….


Exactly. That was my first thought. A random website gets this story from a tick Tok influencer who allegedly was told this story by the student. Not buying it for a second.

It doesn’t even sound plausible. How is a high schooler going to put in 12 hours a week at any daycare. They are open M-F and close between around 5 or 5:30. That would be over 2 hours a day. Unless the student’s high school ends early and the student never ever had to stay after school logistically it doesn’t even make sense. And there are very very few special needs daycare. After 3 years old students who have disabilities are provided services through public schools.


So, I agree it's probably for clicks.

But as a public school teacher, I knew plenty of teenagers covering the 4 - 6 shift at local daycares as their part time job.

I could name a number of daycares for kids with disabilities in the DC area. These days most of them are inclusive, but places like Karasik (run by the ARC), or Easter Seals whose primary mission is serving children with disabilities. Even those kids who get services from the public school usually need daycare as well, as those hours are usually shorter than a work day.


The most unbelievable thing is that Stanford would check


+1 How on earth would they Stanford have the manpower to check this? However, a teen did ask me to sign off on her volunteer hours on an application form as part of my role as coordinator for a monthly volunteer program. But she put down that she had been volunteering for 8 months when she had in reality only ever attended a single session and asked me to write her a reference letter when I could barely identify her if I saw her in the street having only met her once for 2 hours.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:There was a poster on here a few years ago who had a kid who was rejected almost everywhere, despite having perfect stats and an absurdly impressive resume. I remember this kid claimed to have volunteer hours that worked out to something like 10 hours per week, every single week of high school (on top of a gazillion extracurriculars, etc). Clearly the universities didn't buy this.

Remember, applications are read by humans who have the same hours in the week as the kids do and they were kids once too. Don't embellish.


This was my thought. I suspect they went to the trouble of confirming it because she probably had other ECs listed as well, and the math didn’t math.
Anonymous
The source of this is "yourtango.com" Let's not accept it as if it were a press release from Stanford. Kids lie on CVs and it's hard for colleges to pick it up unless someone directly calls them to identify the lies which doesn't happen often. When I was in high school, the completely unathletic valedictorian listed himself as tennis team captain on his college applications. He was on the team, but that's about all one could say. He's been a proud Harvard graduate for 20 years...
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:The source of this is "yourtango.com" Let's not accept it as if it were a press release from Stanford. Kids lie on CVs and it's hard for colleges to pick it up unless someone directly calls them to identify the lies which doesn't happen often. When I was in high school, the completely unathletic valedictorian listed himself as tennis team captain on his college applications. He was on the team, but that's about all one could say. He's been a proud Harvard graduate for 20 years...


Many colleges vet at some level. Several highly selective schools will take a select group of admitted students and thoroughly vet the info.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:The source of this is "yourtango.com" Let's not accept it as if it were a press release from Stanford. Kids lie on CVs and it's hard for colleges to pick it up unless someone directly calls them to identify the lies which doesn't happen often. When I was in high school, the completely unathletic valedictorian listed himself as tennis team captain on his college applications. He was on the team, but that's about all one could say. He's been a proud Harvard graduate for 20 years...


The sports captain thing happens all the time.
Plus no one cares who the sports captain is.
Anonymous
that's a big lie.
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