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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been an Ivy alumni interviewer for a while. The admissions offices increasingly view service trips abroad as evidence that the parents can write a check to a company that organizes the trips, not as a signal of something special about the kid. [/quote]As an interviewer, surely you know that not every service is abroad and not everybody writes or can afford to write a big check. I am not an interviewer but one of the most powerful essays I read during my online search for writing good essays was about a low income kid who went to Haiti after the earthquake to help out and came back with a different perspective about his 'impoverishment.' It was very well-written, and he was admitted to three Ivy schools. Though this may be an exception, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss every social experience for an essay.[/quote]
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