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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

They verify the parental finances and assets, that part they have down to a science.

But I’m ready to volunteer to do the resume audit on every parent here who is AGHAST that kids may do a little embellishing on their applications.

Surely YOU never exaggerate or leave things out of YOUR job applications. That would be dishonest![/quote]

I'm okay with embellishing.  But these NFPs that are basically throw up and then dismantled 6 months later for the sake of college apps alone is a big problem with college admissions today.   I wish a college would do an internal review, a year after they admit kids, to go back and check all those founder stories ... the blogs and podcasts and NFPs .. how many are still active.  80%? 50%?  okay.  but is it 3%?  then , let's get honest about this whole thing
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And what? Kick the kid out if the NFP isn't still up and running? What about the kids who played French Horn in high school and listed that as an EC, but stopped playing in college, do they get kicked out too? [/quote]

A kid who played French horn for 6 months does not put that on their app.

So your snark has back you into a good example.  A kid who does a passion project podcast for 6 months and quits the week apps are submitted should get the same leg up a kid who plays the French Horn for 6 months - none at all.

And no, I dont want anyone kicked out. I want the AO team who are all 26 year olds now to really think for a minute if the "story" on the app is truthful. If those passionate passions are all dropped and kids are switching into CS in November, take a look at your system and retool[/quote]

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MaYbe they should make it harder to change your app designated major…bet they’d suss ppl out then[/quote]

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