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[quote=Anonymous][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]
The difference is their kids are too dumb to do scientific research. Therefore, they’re gonna demonize it and no one else should do it.[/quote]

How is different from hiring a consultant to work on (or write) your kid’s essay? It’s something rich parents do and poor parents don’t do.

Just another inequity in American college admissions. [/quote]
The difference is most of the research is NOT pay per play unlike what DCUM wanted you to believe.[/quote]

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