So many fake nonprofits and businesses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a dozen kids who’ve done this and in all but one case at least one parent is a lawyer and they all make over $500,000 a year. In the one non lawyer family, the parents started it when the kids were young children and the kids just helped with the ONE beneficiary of the org.

This kind of thing makes my blood boil.

what makes my blood boil are those not paying their full freight that's the real issue

[Anonymous]

I’d be brutal as an AO. If I saw non profit or published research or start up, the application would hit the trash. On the flip side if I saw a kid who had a lawn mowing business or worked the same job for a few years I’d be impressed.

[Anonymous]

As stated many times:

If you can tell, adcoms can 100% tell. No reason to be aggrieved, this is probably helping the honest kids overall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It works.

Agree. They are only spending a few minutes looking at each application. It looks better than your kid being on varsity bowling team. They certainly aren’t digging into the validity of these non profits and businesses. They don’t care

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of your kids getting into selective colleges, what is your kids intended major? My kid wants to do CS, so he is hands down learning coding, creating passion project apps etc.. Not much time left for anything else.

Do you think opening a pet or lawn business would help with CS major admission at a selective university?

Having repos on GitHub that others follow or fork would be better IMO. I recently hired a guy whose passion project has like 8M downloads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d be brutal as an AO. If I saw non profit or published research or start up, the application would hit the trash. On the flip side if I saw a kid who had a lawn mowing business or worked the same job for a few years I’d be impressed.

Then that’s why you’re not an AO. What would your plan be for kids who had both long term employment and a non profit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As stated many times:

If you can tell, adcoms can 100% tell. No reason to be aggrieved, this is probably helping the honest kids overall.

Kind of like our neighbor who claims to have almost a thousand hours fostering animals - when it is his mom who does it. Sure, maybe he feeds them every once in a while, but he absolutely does not have a thousand active hours helping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of your kids getting into selective colleges, what is your kids intended major? My kid wants to do CS, so he is hands down learning coding, creating passion project apps etc.. Not much time left for anything else.

Do you think opening a pet or lawn business would help with CS major admission at a selective university?

Nope. Focus on what he likes. Consolidate everything into a single web page. See if any can be shared with others for the 'common good'. The lefties (which a lot of AOs seem to be) unfortunately want to see 'giving' so make something up even if you don't actually don't do it- cooking at a food bank, volunteering at a shelter, community clean up, etc. None of these are verifiable nor are verified. Don't aim for leadership or any such nonsense so you are under the radar while still covering that aspect. BTW, no one does any of that 'giving' BS once in college, unless of course it furthers their interests in college..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of your kids getting into selective colleges, what is your kids intended major? My kid wants to do CS, so he is hands down learning coding, creating passion project apps etc.. Not much time left for anything else.

Do you think opening a pet or lawn business would help with CS major admission at a selective university?

Nope. Focus on what he likes. Consolidate everything into a single web page. See if any can be shared with others for the 'common good'. The lefties (which a lot of AOs seem to be) unfortunately want to see 'giving' so make something up even if you don't actually don't do it- cooking at a food bank, volunteering at a shelter, community clean up, etc. None of these are verifiable nor are verified. Don't aim for leadership or any such nonsense so you are under the radar while still covering that aspect. BTW, no one does any of that 'giving' BS once in college, unless of course it furthers their interests in college..

Some colleges require it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of your kids getting into selective colleges, what is your kids intended major? My kid wants to do CS, so he is hands down learning coding, creating passion project apps etc.. Not much time left for anything else.

Do you think opening a pet or lawn business would help with CS major admission at a selective university?

Nope. Focus on what he likes. Consolidate everything into a single web page. See if any can be shared with others for the 'common good'. The lefties (which a lot of AOs seem to be) unfortunately want to see 'giving' so make something up even if you don't actually don't do it- cooking at a food bank, volunteering at a shelter, community clean up, etc. None of these are verifiable nor are verified. Don't aim for leadership or any such nonsense so you are under the radar while still covering that aspect. BTW, no one does any of that 'giving' BS once in college, unless of course it furthers their interests in college..

Some colleges require it.

The post covers that starting with "The lefties".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents, please stop passing off your work as your child's. Your $3M new startup is not going to put Google out of business. If we can see through this, don't you think the AOs do?

Most of these psycho moms are writing the common app essays too. Why do you think they spam all these forums with obscure factoids nobody -- including current students and alums -- would know? Because they obsessively research to write the essays their coddled 'tiger cubs' refuse to write. Cray cray!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, please stop passing off your work as your child's. Your $3M new startup is not going to put Google out of business. If we can see through this, don't you think the AOs do?

Most of these psycho moms are writing the common app essays too. Why do you think they spam all these forums with obscure factoids nobody -- including current students and alums -- would know? Because they obsessively research to write the essays their coddled 'tiger cubs' refuse to write. Cray cray!

The real Cray Cray is the requirement to write these stupid essays and the focus on ECs. Imagine this, your employer tells you that you get a rating bump if you wear pink underwear. You have two choices - actually wear pink underwear, or tell them you are because you think that requirement is stupid. Would it be considered lying? In a literal sense, yes but in a sane world, no! More power to the moms writing essays and faking ECs! Please keep it up and make that nonsense meaningless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of your kids getting into selective colleges, what is your kids intended major? My kid wants to do CS, so he is hands down learning coding, creating passion project apps etc.. Not much time left for anything else.

Do you think opening a pet or lawn business would help with CS major admission at a selective university?

Nope. Focus on what he likes. Consolidate everything into a single web page. See if any can be shared with others for the 'common good'. The lefties (which a lot of AOs seem to be) unfortunately want to see 'giving' so make something up even if you don't actually don't do it- cooking at a food bank, volunteering at a shelter, community clean up, etc. None of these are verifiable nor are verified. Don't aim for leadership or any such nonsense so you are under the radar while still covering that aspect. BTW, no one does any of that 'giving' BS once in college, unless of course it furthers their interests in college..

Since when is it lefty to value service? Look at any church or Christian college, and they will agree.

Also, don't lie. Or, are you saying lying is a right wing value? If so, I guess you're the poster child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As stated many times:

If you can tell, adcoms can 100% tell. No reason to be aggrieved, this is probably helping the honest kids overall.

Kind of like our neighbor who claims to have almost a thousand hours fostering animals - when it is his mom who does it. Sure, maybe he feeds them every once in a while, but he absolutely does not have a thousand active hours helping.

My kid adopted a pet. That's even better, right? It's permanent. Oh, it's not, because a pet is a luxury, but fostering and then throwing it back, is charity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As stated many times:

If you can tell, adcoms can 100% tell. No reason to be aggrieved, this is probably helping the honest kids overall.

Kind of like our neighbor who claims to have almost a thousand hours fostering animals - when it is his mom who does it. Sure, maybe he feeds them every once in a while, but he absolutely does not have a thousand active hours helping.

My kid adopted a pet. That's even better, right? It's permanent. Oh, it's not, because a pet is a luxury, but fostering and then throwing it back, is charity?

How about adopting a child? Does a kid get "experience" (adversity) points for being adopted? For having an adopted sibling with mental health challenges?
College admissions is a total racket.