Non profits started by high school students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of the kids who “publish” (I.e. their parents pay a prof to “work” with their kid and put their name on a paper).

Pretty sure no professors would go for this as a paid arrangement. Come on!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Haven't schools "caught on" to that though? Kind of like the several thousand dollar "service trip" that rich kids take so they can play soccer with kids in developing countries and claim how much of a difference they are making?

Yes, they’ve caught on. I think they can sniff out the phony ones. The impressive ones started at about 12 years old and grew more successful every year over the six years the students have been doing it.

Let’s say a student has a nonprofit that focuses on handing out gloves to the homeless and needy. It started in one section of the city and they handed out 40 pairs. The next winter with volunteers they branched out to a larger section of the city and doubled the amount. Soon it expanded to three cities in the area and you’ve gained a few sponsors who donate significant amounts. The student’s essay could say that he’s hoping to go to Harvard and continue my work in Cambridge.

This would be impressive. Not too complicated but fills a need and takes some real work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fillers. I started a nonprofit. I did not realize I should have used my kid. It’s not very expensive or hard.

You started it. Did you want to lie and claim your kid started it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks a high school student is actually running their own successful non profit: I would love to sell you a timeshare.

THIS! I know a student who started a non profit where she ostensibly baked hundreds of cupcakes a week and sold them, donating the proceeds to her charity. The kicker- it was actually the family's nanny who did all of the baking and packaging!!

Honest family and great character, huh? Plus that’s not really impressive. Like a kid with a lemonade stand.

Kids who are naturally entrepreneurial and have great work ethic can do it. I think that they can tell if it’s legitimate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents are really smart their kids start one together and then all get into Ivies.

FWIW, I'm the PP about the kids who started a food and service nonprofit in COVID. None of them got into Ivies REA/ED. But all three got into good schools and that EC - and full pay - may have helped.

The sad thing is that AOs still fall for all these glam posturing. The top student in my kid's school started a social media account and posted aggressively 6 months before Nov1. The posts stopped the day after Harvard REA came out-he was in and done.

The sadder thing is you people here think you know more about this stuff than the people who do it for a living.

You don't.

[Anonymous]

It is nauseating when you see these Fb posts about the one day non profit their kid created with a website and pics like they’ve done it for years knowing it was all for a bullet on their application. Never to be mentioned again.

[Anonymous]

You can look at Coca Cola scholar winners lists from even 2-3 years ago. They were rewarded for those “non profits” by winning prestigious awards. Then google said organization and most are gone.

College staff is even less experienced. Most are doing this for first or second year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of the kids who “publish” (I.e. their parents pay a prof to “work” with their kid and put their name on a paper).

Pretty sure no professors would go for this as a paid arrangement. Come on!

The professors do it for free. They like kids or the parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't schools "caught on" to that though? Kind of like the several thousand dollar "service trip" that rich kids take so they can play soccer with kids in developing countries and claim how much of a difference they are making?

Yes, they’ve caught on. I think they can sniff out the phony ones. The impressive ones started at about 12 years old and grew more successful every year over the six years the students have been doing it.

Let’s say a student has a nonprofit that focuses on handing out gloves to the homeless and needy. It started in one section of the city and they handed out 40 pairs. The next winter with volunteers they branched out to a larger section of the city and doubled the amount. Soon it expanded to three cities in the area and you’ve gained a few sponsors who donate significant amounts. The student’s essay could say that he’s hoping to go to Harvard and continue my work in Cambridge.

This would be impressive. Not too complicated but fills a need and takes some real work.

Good example of how non profits are BS. Makework to imitate existing social services, and taking credit for other people's money, plus a lie to wrap it up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If parents are really smart their kids start one together and then all get into Ivies.

FWIW, I'm the PP about the kids who started a food and service nonprofit in COVID. None of them got into Ivies REA/ED. But all three got into good schools and that EC - and full pay - may have helped.

The sad thing is that AOs still fall for all these glam posturing. The top student in my kid's school started a social media account and posted aggressively 6 months before Nov1. The posts stopped the day after Harvard REA came out-he was in and done.

The sad thing is that no one knows what AOs actually fall for, and parents cargo cult all these totems of admissions.

[Anonymous]

What's crazy is that this stuff matters at all for getting into a *school*. It's really about these institutions trying to pick future business winners who will get rich and donate money or inflated the school's reputstion so the admins can get their salaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's crazy is that this stuff matters at all for getting into a *school*. It's really about these institutions trying to pick future business winners who will get rich and donate money or inflated the school's reputstion so the admins can get their salaries.

I was coming to write this same thing. It’s not about actually helping people. It’s about feeding a pipeline of wealthy, self-important people *thinking* they’re helping people by writing huge checks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If parents are really smart their kids start one together and then all get into Ivies.

FWIW, I'm the PP about the kids who started a food and service nonprofit in COVID. None of them got into Ivies REA/ED. But all three got into good schools and that EC - and full pay - may have helped.

The sad thing is that AOs still fall for all these glam posturing. The top student in my kid's school started a social media account and posted aggressively 6 months before Nov1. The posts stopped the day after Harvard REA came out-he was in and done.

The sad thing is that no one knows what AOs actually fall for, and parents cargo cult all these totems of admissions.

No, the sad thing is that people think AOs are idiots when all they do is look at applicants. They know, way better than any poster here.

The sadder thing is people who think that kids can trick AOs into admission and their kid could have also but they were just too honest.

Laughable.

[Anonymous]

people, the average tenure of an AO post-covid is 18 months. they idea that these 24 year olds who ended up someone working for the college they graduated from because that's where they did their works study during undergrad have "seen it all" is laughable.

read Inside Higher Ed

[Anonymous]

The high school non-profit founding scam was still working with the Ivies during the last admission season. I have seen it. Believing it is over is unfortunately wishful thinking.