Would beauty pageant Winning Titles help on College apps?

[Anonymous]

I'm talking about county and state level contests.[b]

[Anonymous]

doubtful

[Anonymous]

Only in Texas and Oklahoma.

[Anonymous]

I would say yes, because it shows effort and dedication and talent.

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

Which schools does Honey Booboo want to apply to?

[Anonymous]

Depends on the college.

[Anonymous]

In the South. And not everywhere in the South. Maybe Vegas/Nevada

[Anonymous]

You could ask an educational consultant about this, but personally I would include it for all college apps, especially the ones who are not thought of as Southern belle frivolous.

It is who your child is, and I think it makes for a little originality if the rest of the application is very technical or STEM.

Colleges these days are looking for originality.

[Anonymous]

It helped my friend's daughter in the midwest.

[Anonymous]

Yes, it was highlighted by a STEM admissions committee in the NE for both myself and by friend in college when we reviewed our admission files.

[Anonymous]

There's at least one miss America who went to Harvard, so yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the South. And not everywhere in the South. Maybe Vegas/Nevada

Beauty pageants big in Texas. So maybe UT-Austin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the South. And not everywhere in the South. Maybe Vegas/Nevada

Beauty pageants big in Texas. So maybe UT-Austin?

Beauty pageants are big in most if Texas but Austin is very different politically &, in many ways, culturally, from most of the rest of the state. A lot of Texans -- & a lot of peoole living in Austin -- would be very happy if the state were to firce (or allow,depending on one's point of view) Austin to secede from the rest if the state. In the minds of many Texans, the only good reason why this hasn't yet happened (or, at the very least, why the Texas state capital hasn't been changed to a someplace more representative of "the real Texas") is that nobody has quite figured out how to move the historic, Texas-sized capital building to another, more worthy city.

All this is to say that, if the people in charge of admissions at UT-Austin are anything like the majority of people living in Austin, the likelihood that winning pageant titles will significantly improve a kid's admissions chances is probably not much higher there than it would be at UC-Berkeley.

If, on the other hand, OP's DD were to apply to, say, SMU, Baylor, or Texas A & M, then, yes, the probability of her pageant titles giving her a significant leg up in the admissions process would quite likely be much greater than it would be were she to apply to the vast majority of schools outside of Texas.

[Anonymous]

Yes, if applying to Trump University. Oh, wait.....