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[quote=Anonymous]We toured Grace and they spoke a lot about a 10th grade independent project that everyone does. It takes much of the year and if structured properly is a great "passion project" that looks really good on an application. It seemed like some kids treated it this way and did some interesting, meaningful work while others kind of punted on it. Which I think is Grace in a nutshell - its top kids are very strong but it has a more broad student body with some kids who are a bit less academic (though not dumb).

I think they also had parents offering internships, and some connections to NYU and Cooper Union.

Overall, it is nice that some schools facilitate these things but realistically, these are children of the privileged movers and shakers of NYC, so if the school didn't help, it still wouldn't be that hard for the kids to find something through mom, dad, a neighbor, etc.

I think the key is that whatever a kid does can be presented sincerely and not just as something an overpriced consultant told them to do for college and will be dropped like a bad habit the day they get in. If you started some charity, why did you need to start your own rather than build on an existing one (I have heard several colleges say that in some ways they would rather you go to an existing organization and make it better than start your own) - if you build a new one, will you really continue it? Highly doubtful. There are also tons of passionate violinists and fencers who are done the second it has fulfilled its purpose...[/quote]

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