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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I am one of the PPs in this thread. I was helping someone with his college apps. He had won a prize in a few science fairs. Sounded impressive to me. I asked him all kinds of questions about how he had done this — and no matter what I asked (I suspected a lie), he always told me he had done it on his own. No mentor, no nothing. Twenty hrs/wk.

Ten days before EA deadlines, for reasons I don’t know, his counselor reviewed his common app. Maybe they knew which kid would lie and are trying to protect the school?  She told him he could not list it as his EC as it was done in a school course! Did he tell me then? No.

I finally heard from him yesterday with a very practiced version of what happened and how his counselor said it wouldn’t affect anything. No way she was going to tell him the truth — he probably messed up the counselor LOR! I doubt he will get in anywhere now. Maybe Northeastern as he is full pay.

I have been telling this kid from the start that he needed to be honest because I could tell he was trying to stretch the truth here and there. And yet, he straight up lied to my face anboyt the one impressive thing on his app, and got into trouble.

Why are these kids (and parents) so desperate to get into HYPSM? I don’t understand how they will risk everything to have a shot at getting in.[/quote]
Why would the counselor mention that? She probably is too busy to even remember it - unless he goes to a top private, she will probably just fill out a form / copy and paste some boilerplate and move on to the next counselor letter.[/quote]

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