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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's actually staggering that 23% of Harvard students used a private consulting firm. Once you take out FGLI, athletes, URMs, rural students, and other people who have hooks, then [b]it's likely that a near-majority of unhooked applicants used one of these services[/b]. [/quote]

Look at the profiles of applicants on Reddit or College Confidential.  Kids have 2-4 internships at fortune 500 companies while in high school. They're managing non-profits with budgets of 200K.  They've been published multiple times. It's ABSURD what they're doing and no 14-17 year old (at the time of the activities) is capable of creating those resumes on their own.  No 14-17 year old would even know that half that stuff EXISTS, let alone how to make it happen.

It's completely the work of adults (paid consultants or parents or both) but admissions officers are eating it up.  They fall for it every time.  [/quote]

I wonder if articles like this that shines into the dark alleys of admissions will push schools to again shift the profile they seek.  When you have a company now worth over half a billion whose sole existence is to try to game slots from a handful of schools because the schools have become a bit predictable,  makes wonder if they will change the algorithm.

Like Google changing the rules of SEO[/quote]

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