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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Provide examples of Coca-Cola Scholar nonprofits that the "founders" continue to develop and scale throughout their college careers and beyond. Because what we see in our community is that Ivy-educated SAHMs start building these things for their kids in the summer after ninth grade, max out the social-media publicity blitz two years later, then everyone gives up the facade at midnight on November 1st without the kid ever really knowing what had been going on. It was so impressive the way that student built an amazing support network for refugees in need of legal guidance until you realized that her mother used to be a highly accomplished immigration lawyer before giving up her career. It's one of many forms of admissions fraud that universities encourage and that today's high-schoolers are forced to consider if they're to compete for elite acceptances. Looking at the scope, the Varsity Blues system was actually a relatively minor tactic by comparison. [/quote]

+1 
Absolute truth. 
But posters here insult us for thinking we see through it and AOs don’t.   AOs don’t look at what their parents do/did and how it might have played an enormous role.  AOs don’t look for proof that the non profit did anything real either. 
Outright lying is happening too.  A kid who got into Michigan in DCs class admitted that he completely lied on his activities and awards. His dad laughed. [/quote]

This is the kind of charade that the idiot admissions officers can't seem to able to figure out.

We have a mom at our school that does all the charity work, posting on message boards for money, asking for volunteers to carry those supplies, signup sheets to do several of these tasks, then the local newspaper carries a photo of the child and an article on how the child raised thousands of dollars, donated several bags of groceries, etc to a charity. Going on since 9th grade.

AO's need to do a study of how many of the students who have written up a passion for something actually continue through college.[b] I am pretty sure they would be shocked.[/b] This is like active managers who were assumed that would always beat the stock market. Not until indexing became popular and benchmarking got serious interest the charade that the active managers add value got rubbished.

Something like that need to happen to admissions policies.

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C’mon, no they wouldn’t. They know exactly what’s going on. [/quote]

Their entire profession revolves around being fooled by well-packaged 17 year olds.[/quote]

They’re not being fooled at all. They’re rewarding kids who play the game the best based on what they have to work with. Everything is just shameless self-promotion and truthiness these days.[/quote]

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