So many fake nonprofits and businesses

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is not analogous, but it speaks volumes about you. Equating writing skills to underwear colors? Bizarre.

[Anonymous]

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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?

i’d throw that in the trash too. no kid has time for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You could go work somewhere that has professional experts and not a pink underwear cult?

These colleges do their darndest to shed their elite teputations, but the darn parents keep propping then back up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is not analogous, but it speaks volumes about you. Equating writing skills to underwear colors? Bizarre.

ChatGPT writes the essays. Last year, mom and the consultants wrote them.

[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?

Your kid doesn't need college. Go anywhere for fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is not analogous, but it speaks volumes about you. Equating writing skills to underwear colors? Bizarre.

If that's your pushback, I don't know what to say..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You could go work somewhere that has professional experts and not a pink underwear cult?

These colleges do their darndest to shed their elite teputations, but the darn parents keep propping then back up.

What if every workplace has this? Like colleges with their unreasonable requirements?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is not analogous, but it speaks volumes about you. Equating writing skills to underwear colors? Bizarre.

new poster: actually, some are moving away from evaluating writing skills in the essays.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/02/duke-university-undergraduate-admissions-changes-numerical-rating-standardized-testing-essays-covid-test-optional-ai-generated-college-consultants

[Anonymous]

Lots of these non profits do a lot of good and help people, animals, issues, etc. IF a KID does one, spends lots of time on it, does a lot of good as a result, and is only doing it for college…so? If a parent does it, that’s different. I have friends whose kids do whatever just for college: scout continuation, sports, club participation, volunteering, etc. it’s no different.
And if you believe AOs see through it, then be thankful your kid isn’t doing it.

[Anonymous]

And some get fake extra time on standardized tests and school tests. What a world. And USC makes a big deal out of non-profits. Why? So fake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of these non profits do a lot of good and help people, animals, issues, etc. IF a KID does one, spends lots of time on it, does a lot of good as a result, and is only doing it for college…so? If a parent does it, that’s different. I have friends whose kids do whatever just for college: scout continuation, sports, club participation, volunteering, etc. it’s no different.
And if you believe AOs see through it, then be thankful your kid isn’t doing it.

If a kid is into it, sure they should go for it. That's like a kid being into theater or Swimming or whatever. Don't elevate that to a different level which is what causes all this helicopter behavior. My kid had zero interest in service activities. We just made them up for the application. Am I teaching her to lie? Is that a real lie or a 'pink panty' lie?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of these non profits do a lot of good and help people, animals, issues, etc. IF a KID does one, spends lots of time on it, does a lot of good as a result, and is only doing it for college…so? If a parent does it, that’s different. I have friends whose kids do whatever just for college: scout continuation, sports, club participation, volunteering, etc. it’s no different.
And if you believe AOs see through it, then be thankful your kid isn’t doing it.

If a kid is into it, sure they should go for it. That's like a kid being into theater or Swimming or whatever. Don't elevate that to a different level which is what causes all this helicopter behavior. My kid had zero interest in service activities. We just made them up for the application. Am I teaching her to lie? Is that a real lie or a 'pink panty' lie?

I mean, yes.

[Anonymous]

And another thing, parents, stop sending your kids to Hawaii or similar to help the locals. The residents do not need your help.

[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?

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.

Thanks! Yes, he does some freelance coding work on the side. Just doesn't have much time. so perhaps that counts as a business or something?

[Anonymous]

Businesses can be a great thing for the kid alone. My kids give private sports lessons and make a lot of money and love doing it. A friend’s son does private soccer lessons and group soccer clinics for kids. Makes a ton of money, self employed and he’d never make that money anywhere else.