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[quote=Anonymous]Aside from the unequal access to resources, these are educational projects. Few are science that any professional would care about, and almost none of those that are are important to. Every expert in a field sees that these projects have no scientific value, but are learning experiences with a huge layer of hyperbole and deception on top.

The contests themselves are part of the fraud, promoting junk or boring research as groundbreaking because they are hyping their own contests.

Basically it's an promotional partnership between the contest sponsors who want exposure, organizers who want prestige, kids who want competitive college admissions, and colleges who want a prestigious reputation. They all scratch each others' back, and since you can't compare a quantum lhysics project to a geology project, the awards are totally subjective and arbitrary.

The good news is that the super elite colleges have been gamed to death and severely lost their undergrad reputational quality, so your kid will do great at a tier below and competing for a job on their merits.

Except that employers and investors are also in on the scam, using brand name colleges for their own marketing.

At the end of the day, it's up to the public (and thank you MAGA for helping out with this!) to disregard and discredit all this phony elitness. [/quote]

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