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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, sure a kid can fake caring about something, and maybe it will even work. Alternatively, they could actually care, and follow where it leads them.

One of those is a route to meaning and purpose, which nearly every thinker since the days of Aristotle has suggested is the path to a good life. One of those might fake an AO.  [/quote]

I don’t think the discussion was about the advisement whether to fake an interest in something. The issue is whether true interest v fake interest can differentiated by AOs. I say it can’t for the most part. [/quote]

Given that most frontline application readers are 20-something grads that stayed in their college to work in their admissions office... I agree, sadly.

You know the type: American, some with a typical study abroad experience (meaning they learned nothing), replete with stereotypes about the world, usually liberal with liberal values and apt to fall for liberal buzzwords and activities.

The most obvious attempts to lie will be detected, but the sneaky ones won't. 
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