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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, how much of your DS resume is his merit? If you work on the hill and he got an internship there through your connections is not his merit in any way. Yes, he has the experience and knowledge from it but that is an advantage not an achievement. So sick entire of entitlement! I don't know your son, maybe he's exceptional, but you sound like the pushy whinny parent so likely lots of his resume bullet points had your significant contribution.
Get rid of holistic admissions and introduce exams for specific departments, why are you scoring kids in English if they go to computer science? OK, add it as pass/fail so they have so minimum English proficiency but test them in math.[/quote]

Actually, you sound like a whiny parent. OP has been pretty tame and essentially just asked for insights, which were provided in abundance. Some PPs on here also said their own kids and others they know got internships on the hill of their own accord, and OP doesn’t sound like a helicopter parent. OPs son definitely has the credentials to get a hill internship with class president + editor in chief to go along with the stellar academics[/quote]

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