Turn your wealth and privilege into a college admissions story

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dunno, sounds like a nice thing to do. Everyone is so jaded here. At least the kids are doing something in an effort to help someone else. Who cares if they're motivated by college applications? Better this than doing nothing at all.

Other than an interview, we don’t actually know what the kids did themselves.

Digital SAT is helping with cheating. DD knows of someone who admitted to cheating on the still paper ACT.

I thought it would be harder to cheat on digital SAT

[Anonymous]

I couldn’t get past ‘Maximus’. 🙄

[Anonymous]

More detailed piece on the nonprofit here, from May
https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-maximus-jay-cole-devinney-of-potomac-maryland/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More detailed piece on the nonprofit here, from May
https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-maximus-jay-cole-devinney-of-potomac-maryland/

Feel like authentic through and through. There are pictures of families receiving the gears, all smiling and happy and all.

Kids look very confident and social. I also don’t get it why people assume they are rich kids. Nothing says they are rich, just UMC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More detailed piece on the nonprofit here, from May
https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-maximus-jay-cole-devinney-of-potomac-maryland/

Feel like authentic through and through. There are pictures of families receiving the gears, all smiling and happy and all.

Kids look very confident and social. I also don’t get it why people assume they are rich kids. Nothing says they are rich, just UMC.

I find it disrespectful and self-serving when kids who do non-profit work take pictures of the families they are serving. “Look at me, look at all the poor people I am helping.” If they truly want to support and help people, sharing a picture of them as an example of “someone in need” feels disingenuous and gross.

[Anonymous]

Nothing about education and the college admissions game is “fair.”

Kids who can afford to go to summer camps, travel teams, pre college programs, have private coaches or private music lessons, kumon, private tutoring ….the list goes on and on and ON. At least they’re doing something to better the world. And my rising senior doesn’t have a hook like that at all, but I’m choosing not to be bitter about it. Acceptance that the playing field will never be level brings a lot of peace to the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dunno, sounds like a nice thing to do. Everyone is so jaded here. At least the kids are doing something in an effort to help someone else. Who cares if they're motivated by college applications? Better this than doing nothing at all.

Other than an interview, we don’t actually know what the kids did themselves.

Here's the thing. You actually don't know that about ANY other EC a kid lists in the common app.

Of course…that’s why when someone says, “At least the kids are doing something in an effort to help someone else,” I said we actually don’t know if they did anything. I’m the one who said I have never seem a single item donated in their boxes and that the quotes in the article seem disingenuous. It will not matter for at least one kid…he is a highly ranked swimmer and presumably will recruit to a top school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More detailed piece on the nonprofit here, from May
https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-maximus-jay-cole-devinney-of-potomac-maryland/

Feel like authentic through and through. There are pictures of families receiving the gears, all smiling and happy and all.

Kids look very confident and social. I also don’t get it why people assume they are rich kids. Nothing says they are rich, just UMC.

I find it disrespectful and self-serving when kids who do non-profit work take pictures of the families they are serving. “Look at me, look at all the poor people I am helping.” If they truly want to support and help people, sharing a picture of them as an example of “someone in need” feels disingenuous and gross.

Just visit my local soup kitchen website, no surprise, there are pictures of clients they are serving. So I think this is no big deal.
I think it's refreshing to see high school kids do something. No one expect them to be saints, angels. From those pictures, they are very nice kids.

Joe, open a bottle of wine. Relax.

[Anonymous]

OK, OP. What did YOU do as a High Schooler? Come on now, don't be shy.

Wealth and privilege or not, kids these days have to do SOMETHING because at some point, on paper all the old tricks have been done. If this story was based in PG but the kids were "wealthy and privileged," (yes, those kids do exist), would you have posted about it?

I think the real problem here is that the college admissions game has just become absurd. There's no joy. They are all just grinding - whether grades or extracurriculars - and probably rarely doing something they actually honestly enjoy. It's just sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dunno, sounds like a nice thing to do. Everyone is so jaded here. At least the kids are doing something in an effort to help someone else. Who cares if they're motivated by college applications? Better this than doing nothing at all.

Other than an interview, we don’t actually know what the kids did themselves.

Digital SAT is helping with cheating. DD knows of someone who admitted to cheating on the still paper ACT.

I thought it would be harder to cheat on digital SAT

Written poorly but it is harder to cheat on the digital SAT. The digital is helping to curb cheating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More detailed piece on the nonprofit here, from May
https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-maximus-jay-cole-devinney-of-potomac-maryland/

Feel like authentic through and through. There are pictures of families receiving the gears, all smiling and happy and all.

Kids look very confident and social. I also don’t get it why people assume they are rich kids. Nothing says they are rich, just UMC.

I find it disrespectful and self-serving when kids who do non-profit work take pictures of the families they are serving. “Look at me, look at all the poor people I am helping.” If they truly want to support and help people, sharing a picture of them as an example of “someone in need” feels disingenuous and gross.

+1. Especially if the pictures are of minors.

[Anonymous]

Someone did that with sports equipment too.

Entitled kids acting like they are doing good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More detailed piece on the nonprofit here, from May
https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-maximus-jay-cole-devinney-of-potomac-maryland/

Feel like authentic through and through. There are pictures of families receiving the gears, all smiling and happy and all.

Kids look very confident and social. I also don’t get it why people assume they are rich kids. Nothing says they are rich, just UMC.

I find it disrespectful and self-serving when kids who do non-profit work take pictures of the families they are serving. “Look at me, look at all the poor people I am helping.” If they truly want to support and help people, sharing a picture of them as an example of “someone in need” feels disingenuous and gross.

+1. Especially if the pictures are of minors.

These entitled kids are self serving. It’s for them not the poors.

[Anonymous]

I'm confused. Where in the article does it say they're doing this for college admissions purposes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. Where in the article does it say they're doing this for college admissions purposes?

LOL. Are you new here?