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[quote=Anonymous]I understand that it's not impressive to do an open-admissions program that takes everyone who can pay the bill. But does that mean that if the parents pay for the activity and it's not super competitive, it's automatically "pay-to-play" and that's bad?

The context is that DD, a rising junior, is signed up for this particular sleepaway camp which goes to a not-so-expensive area in Europe to do a niche style of [music/theater/dance] (I'm making this vague on purpose) and tours around doing performances and staying at the homes of other people who do this activity themselves too. She's done the US-based version of it and wants to level up and experience traveling Europe without her parents. I see a lot of benefit to it both in the quality of the activity and as a valuable life experience overall. But it's so niche that they don't really have a ton of applicants. The tuition is $3K plus the flights, which strikes me as reasonable given how many weeks it is-- of course it costs money to feed a bunch of teens and drive them around even if you aren't paying for housing, and all programs have to pay their staff. Would this be stigmatizing as "pay-to-play", or is that more of a term used in sciences and sports and doesn't work the same way in the arts? [/quote]

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