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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not fairness that's the main issue, [b]it's pay to play, nepotism or outright fraud.[/b] Rather than student work and merit. It's the same thing with nonprofits. Easily faked or carried out by parents.

High school research is basically an admissions smell. It doesn't necessarily mean anything is off, but you want to check extra carefully.[/quote]
Unless you can prove it, it’s just witch hunting.
Of course, you’d like to dumb down everything after you’ve dumbed down SATs and GPAs so kids are not differentiable by any objective measures.[/quote]

Virtually all HS ‘research’ is garbage and AdComs know it. [/quote]

“Virtually all”?

False.

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It’s obviously true that virtually all “research” conducted by teenagers is garbage, even if your little genius is producing more original research at age 16 than all the PhDs at all the R1s in the country. And you agree. After all, you believe that it’s your little Larlo’s extremely unusual talents that should make him so attractive to the kind of hyper-selective colleges that will reject virtually all applicants. [/quote]

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