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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Overly coached students will have: Manufactured passion Strategic essays Carefully planned extracurriculars all tied around their niche interest Extracurriculars will be loaded with numbers —xxx dollars, xxx hours. Everything will be impact impact impact. [/quote] These are actually “safe” choices for some colleges because they all signal money. Sometimes college feels like a joke—they admit mediocre students for the revenue, stick them in supplemental programs, inflate grades, and then use them for marketing and profit (sports etc.). It has little to do with actually improving students’ futures.[/quote]
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