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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So its all lies just to get into an Ivy? What a sham.. what kind of environment will this create on the campus.. all fake people doing fake activities to get a piece of paper that says they went to Harvard..[/quote]

Where is the lie or the sham?  Kids really get those grades and scores and really do the ECs.  All are real not fake.  What are you talking about?[/quote]

I think there’s some skepticism about whether the kids are really doing the activities.  President of chess club, sure.  But these kids founding and running non profits is almost all bullshit — parents or parents friends are doing the work, or it’s really not doing much at all.

I also think there’s a big range in what these college counselors do.  We hired one and paid an hourly rate for a few consultations to get suggestions about schools we hadn’t thought of, plus to help develop a timeline for kid to work on application (so it wasn’t me fighting with her).  That kind of counselor is basically doing what the HS counselor should do but cannot because they have 1000 kids on their plate.  Then you have the counselors like this that are taking 13-14 year olds and molding them like Eliza Doolittle.  [/quote]

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