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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the thing about this that makes me mad is when college AOs say, "We have people call our school to complain than X kid got in when Y kid did not.  But the thing is, they don't know why they were admitted, they didn't see their application or read their essay. We know what we're doing. We dont make mistakes." (The Dartmouth dean says this a lot).

I'd never call a school to rat a kid out, but .. no,  Dartmouth, you don't know a kid better than his/her classmates do. Some of these kids have known each other for 12 years .. and you spent 12 minutes reading their app. There are certainly things on the application that their classmates don't know, of course. But they also know that little Larla was not the lead author on that journal, did not start a NFP, didn't play varsity tennis,  and did not organize the clothing drive that was the essay topic. There was no clothing drive.

THat's the part that bugs me.[/quote]

Colleges are not new at this - they know how to verify certain information, and with whom, and they know when a parent starts a non-profit in their home country, and they absolutely know when a parent is jealous of the kid down the street, who was accepted, while their kid was not.  Don't dig the hole deeper for your kid, parents. [/quote]

Colleges didn't even verify kids played the sports they were recruited for - something I could google from my office in seconds.
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If you are recruited to play a sport, you are recruited by the college coach, and he or she certainly knows whether or not you play the sport.
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Exactly.  The issue with the Varsity Blues scandal is that there were a few coaches who were on the take.  And they paid the price for it.[/quote]

I mean, a couple paid the price.  The thing we learned for Varsity Blues is colleges are hackable.  Nobody verifies shit.[/quote]

In this case, the people who were supposed to do the verifying (in this case, the coaches) were corrupt. That is certainly going to happen again and there is practically no way to prevent it.[/quote]

have you ever heard of an AO verifying .. anything?  literally anything?
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Google, “how do admissions officers verify extracurriculars” you will find a lot of articles indicating they rely on letters of recommendation along with the college counselors recommendation. Otherwise, nothing is verified unless something seems off.

They’re frankly isn’t enough time. With only 5 to 15 minutes per application.[/quote]

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