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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an alumni interviewer. I had a kid claim he had a business making websites. I asked how much he made. He claimed he netted 10 grand a year. I asked for a couple of websites he had designed. I didn't make it sound agressive. I just said that sounded really cool and I'd like to see what a couple looked like so I could mention it in my report. He told me that "off the top" of his head he could only remember one.

The website was copyrighted with his name. I searched and couldn't find any others. Quick search on the name of the business owner showed it was kid's uncle.

I put in my report that I was sceptical about the business--explaining the reasons why--and that, if it was an important factor in the admissions decision, I thought some follow up questions about the business were warranted. He didn't get in. He did get into another equally prestifious college.

I am sure the kid wasn't asking for fin aid. I don't know if the AO ever followed up. But I really did not believe the kid--business was his most important EC by far. [/quote]

I have a similar story. Note that all these conversations between my friend and me took place after the admissions cycle had ended.

A friend did an alumni interview for a T10 school with a young man who said he started a business selling ... I forget, light-up hoverboards or something? He said he did more than $100,000 in sales and had a flashy web site. She raved about this kid to me; thought he was really exceptional for doing this, and that she wrote him the strongest rec letter she had ever done (and keep in mind, as a T10 interviewer, she has seen some incredible applicants.) I directed her to our town's FB moms group, where the mom was spending all day every day posting about hoverboards for sale and basically unloading them at cost. The parents had literally bought a pallet of these things just so the kid could "start a business."

Kid was rejected at that T10 and HYP, ended up somewhere around the bottom of the T30. I'd like to think it's because AOs saw through it. Who knows.

Point being, there are a lot of shady liars out there, and I think it's coming from the parents.

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