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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people have to be careful about drawing a straight like between starting a non-profit and getting into a top colleges.

These kids probably have the academics, the letters of rec, etc. As someone said before, it's like going on a mission trip. It's now a think that UMC people do.  [b]I seriously doubt an AO gets excited about non-profits to the extent that they're accepting kids who don't have the full package just because of one.[/b][/quote]

No no no. You don't get it. These days many kids competing for Ivies and similar already have all the academic accolades they can possibly have. That's just buying you a ticket to the lottery. One of the plus factors, if you're not a recruited athlete, is to found a non-profit. This is to distinguish you from the rest of your magnet school classmates, who also have a perfect SAT scores, 5s on a dozen AP exams, and have also, like you, done multivariable calculus with differential equations in 10th grade and interned at the NIH and done at least a nice poster of original research at a major scientific conference, if not actually co-authored a paper.

When all the stats at the same, the non-profit is the one "squishy" thing (squishy, as in it's difficult to know exactly how hard you worked for it) that can make you stand out.

[b]I speak from experience[/b], regarding students at the Blair magnet in MCPS. I'm sure TJ students are in the same boat. Maybe private school students at Sidwell, St Albans and NCS have that special internship in a congressional office their parent pulled strings for, in addition to the non-profit, and don't have as much STEM background. To each his own flavor of squishy, but it's always in addition to excellent stats.

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I'm searching your post for relevant experience working in admissions and I don't see it. You have anecdotal observations.

Surely, you're smart enough to know that you can't really know what's going on in admissions committee rooms with just some observations.
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Look, DCUM is a parenting board. You can troll this board forever, looking for direct evidence of what people are saying, but you will rarely find it. You can be obtuse and stubborn all you want, and direct your children however you want. Some people know how to gather secondary sources of information (what students around them did and where they got in, also possibly what certain AOs shared, in publications or meetings), but you apparently want more than that. It's a futile exercise. You're going to get supremely frustrated.

So you can continue being rude to people on this thread, or you can calm down and start strategizing with the knowledge you have.

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