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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know why you have such a bee in your bonnet about research.  High school kids do dozens and dozens of different extracurriculars.   Some do it through their schools. Some pay outside companies for it. Some do it another way.  There is nothing particularly unique about research when it comes to trying to develop skills for admittance to college.[/quote]

The point is those researchers would not have hired the student if they weren't paid to do so. It's like paying someone to give your child a trophy that they didn't win on their own. I bet you a million bucks the student will not disclose on their college application that their mom paid someone $20k to hire them to give them a research job. They know this is wrong and so do you. [/quote]

What is wrong with having a business designed to teach interested students about science research?  I don't see how it's any different than giving piano lessons or running a soccer program or teaching ballet and on and on.[/quote]

Sp obvious this PP pays someone to hire her DC to do research because her DC couldn’t land a research internship on her own.

This is very different than paying for piano or soccer lessons. This is more like paying someone to put your child on a soccer roster when they weren’t good enough to qualify for the tryout. When you apply to college, all the professors at that college will look down on your pay-to-play research if they find out, and you know that too that’s why you would never admit to it. That’s the difference. By the way, your kid also knows that you had to pay for their research and they will have to lie about it. [/quote]

No, it's the same as paying an athletic coach to work 1:1 with your child so they can make a team or a music teacher to help your kid with an audition to a selective program.  Money buys credentials and extra support for achievement.

Not sure why you're miffed that people are paying people with scientific skills to help their kids develop research skills.

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