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[quote=Anonymous]I only read the first page of comments but wanted to add what I’ve seen….

My DD started a pandemic project to help our community. She got awards for it. The teacher involved used my DD’s project to get a kid in the following year’s class an award. See everyone believes recommendations — they think teachers never lie. This teacher is on a trip to prove she can get kids into elite schools. The kid who got the award is at CMU. The rest of the kids in that club gave themselves positions — even though they could not (did not know how to!) continue my DD’s project after she graduated. This was because of the same teacher. But guess what? We have seen on LinkedIn that these kids who had put in 20-30 hours exaggerated their hours — I have seen 250 hours which is more than what my DD put down on her college apps. Kids who should have got into elite schools that my DD applied to were ALL denied. One is at Georgetown after being put on a waitlist and then being nominated for an award (that she did not win) in exchange for doing something for the teacher over the summer — this last bit was then said to have been done by a kid in the next year’s class. The rest are at our state flagship.

Teachers are awesome in general and I’m very grateful to the good ones, but please realize that there are schools/teachers that encourage their students to lie so that they can be admitted to elite schools.[/quote]

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