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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What colleges like to see is kids who have a goal in mind who are willing to start out in HS for no pay and learn some ropes or at least prove or show that they have an inclination towards a certain area of study.

Does your kid have a dentist? They can organize files.

Do your pets have a vet? They can care for animals.

Sweeping up hair at the local barbershop or salon?

Living with another family for the summer, some relatives you don’t have usual contact with?

Volunteering for a local gas station mechanic or landscaping company?

Those are unusual things today that virtually no applicants to high level schools have, and they can derive stories from those experiences that make for unique college essays that don’t make admissions people want to tear their eyeballs out for the boredom.

Your kid is not going to get an internship for an investment banker, lots of other kid will be able to do that. You need to figure out what your kid can do. Just don’t expect pay. And don’t send them somewhere that costs $4K for them not to have pay.

Anything that demonstrates unique initiative, getting up and going to work every morning and learning to function with adults. That all works on college applications.

Do exactly what the other applicants to Harvard are NOT doing.

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The OP's child is already in college.

And no one is impressed by your dentist friend letting Larlo organize files.[/quote]

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