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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand how colleges claim to care about equity (ie scrape SAT) and then love published student research.

Most high schoolers who did research I know about have academic center physician parents, or in a minority of cases, donors to academic medical centers or parents that work at a national lab. High schoolers are not getting research gigs unconnected when even they’re competitive for college students.[/quote]

They don't love published student research because they realize that just like the 'non-profit' it is typically a scam.[/quote]
They actually do. Try to cope harder.[/quote]

DP: Used to work as a counselor and both ‘research’ and ‘non-profit’ have become ECs which are highly scrutinized and generally discounted. If genuine with supportable results they can be excellent but they are mostly generic and can actually be detrimental if they appear to be done for admissions purposes.

Right now kids with deep and interesting ECs are getting the best results. Kids don’t have to be real ‘pointy’ but did they do something that they could have a deep and interesting conversation on?[/quote]

I would not listen to this poster.   There are a lot of high schools that have science research programs that develop students interest in science research over several years.

It was incredibly helpful to my students  and to many other students that I know both for learning about science research and for admission to college to continue their studies.[/quote]

Many high schools in my area offer programs like this.  The anti research poster seems to be unfamiliar with these types of academic programs.[/quote]

Does this person even have teens? 
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Who knows?  Regardless, the op has some weird anti -research agenda and apparently very little knowledge about very typical high school programs that exist for students that would like to explore science research.

Obviously not every high school has such a program but the op seems to be completely ignorant of their existence at all.[/quote]

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