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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our college office asks students to avoid any pay to play summer programs. [/quote]

Does a high school summer short study abroad program count as pay to play?  Is it just the potential bad optics of looking rich?

We hoped our kid would get a lot out of his educational trip to Europe.  At one point he seemed interested in international affairs as a major. He did not go on his high school sponsored pure vacation trip because it repeated places he's already seen.

In general, he felt surrounded by spoiled resume-builders and party-harders, but he liked the classes and field trips.  It was two lines on the Common App in the end.  He didn't feel comfortable mining it for essays because it was just 3 weeks long and he had other things to talk about.  On balance we think it was worth it, but partially as a preview of people he might expect to meet at college.  His top choice was just a flyover safety school to them.  Very eye-opening.[/quote]

Yes, anything that has a tuition. My kids are at a NE boarding school and plenty of their peers do this kind of summer program but the counselors recommend they leave them off of their applications. [/quote]

So do they tell prep school kids to get jobs at fast-food restaurants, lifeguarding, and amusement parks, lol....what are they supposed to with summers?  Self-study for AP tests?[/quote]

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