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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the passion project movement is rooted in this "trust and never verified" system.

you can laugh but the kids who found a "passion" in spring of junior year to cook with grandma (look for our podcast!) while connecting your love for baking with your interest in chemistry were super super successful with top colleges

the fact that you cooked with grandma 4x, did 4 podcasts that were 7 minutes each, than you dropped it all and actually plan on transferring into CS asap all go unmentioned.  our high school counselors let people tell their own stories, even when they side eye it all[/quote]

This is actually what private college counselors help kids do.

There’s a whole cottage industry that charges $50,000 to create these narratives. Very very easy to do and you don’t need to pay to do this well.[/quote]

Where's the evidence that it actually works though?  It's really hard to tell since you'll never know how any particular kid would have done without it.  [/quote]

It works at our private school. For schools like Vanderbilt or Barnard or Middlebury. 
Don’t think it’s working for a top 10 school.[/quote]

It absolutely does work for some. Many of the Coke scholarship winners have grossly exaggerated the impact of their “nonprofits”, most of which are no longer in operation before the end of their senior year. [/quote]

I know a Coke scholarship winner. Also know a good number of kids that got into Ivies. Most had non-profits or 'passions' that emerged when their family member (grandma, grandpa, etc.) or tribe (parents' village in china) goes through real (grandma's glaucoma) or imaginary suffering (lack of education opportunities at said chinese village) and decided to do something about it (ML programs written by dad or paid programmers in another country to parse through eye photos to detect glaucoma early or educational app developed by foreign developers with 'thousands of visits' from a bot farm in another country). Just checked the app. Downloads stopped the month after the ivy admission. Almost all of them are gunning for wall street or law school :-).  They are not about the money  :lol:  :lol:

Best part is, it's not just one kid in the family. If the first one gets into Harvard, guess what, the next 2 or 3 will get in as well.  They have perfected the formula, why not keep using it?[/quote]
Do you have any evidence for your racist remarks?
On the other hand, it has been confirmed that an incredible amount of white students lie on their college applications.
"The main finding: 34 percent of white Americans who applied to colleges or universities admit to lying about being a racial minority on their application. The most common lie (by 48 percent of those who lied) was to be a Native American."
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2021/10/25/survey-asks-if-applicants-are-truthful-about-race#:~:text=The%20main%20finding%3A%2034%20percent,to%20be%20a%20Native%20American.
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I know what these kids did! It's not like it's published information that I can share on an anon forum, duh! And I'm not White BTW if that gives you any comfort.  :lol:  :lol:  Don't just throw out the racist card just because. [/quote]

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