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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A mile wide and inch deep is not a  viable college application strategy.  He has an older brother at Cornell so he was well aware of the system. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Why wouldn't volunteer hours transfer? Either you volunteered or you didn't.  Also, why the need for self-described high risk essays?[/quote]

Except it was a viable application strategy since he got into UCLA.

[b]Some schools keep track of volunteering hours and don’t accept aggregating hours from other schools. [/b]

I guess a 17 year old decided to go with a quirky high risk essay since he didn’t have access to a paid college counselor or knowledgeable parent to ghost write, polish and nicely package his application.

He still did better than 90% of students from so called competitive school so good for him.[/quote]

What a crock.  If he volunteered, he volunteered.  The volunteer hours don't stop existing because he changed schools (btw why 3 different schools? another red flag).  I if troop down to the homeless shelter and volunteer your high school has zero say in reporting volunteer hours. If you did 200 hours of that your sophomore year, you put that down.  A different high school can't erase reality.

In a way, you can see why this applicant didn't get the result he wanted:

[b]His GPA was "significantly hurt" [/b]yet he is self reporting on his little youtube video all As or A+'s.
[b]Volunteer hours "did not transfer"[/b]
[b]"No school profile from other school" [/b]what school offering that many APs doesn't have a school profile? You supply one for them if they didn't.  He knows of the school profile because he speaks of it.  Was this high school a domestic US high school?
[b]"I don't even need to listen in class to ace every exam"[/b] What is the teacher there for? This hubris about not absorbing the teachings of a teacher is something surely Yale will love.  "Hey, I'm so good I don't need your teaching!"

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