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[quote=Anonymous][quote] Usually, the projects are closely directed by graduate students or professors who are paid to be mentors.
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The services pair high schoolers with academic mentors for 10-15 weeks to produce research papers. Online services typically shape the topic, direction and duration of the project, and urge students to complete and publish a paper regardless of how fruitful the exploration has been. “Publication specialists” then help steer the papers into a dizzying array of online journals and preprint platforms.[/quote]

This is a GOOD thing. Researching and writing a paper under the direction of a professor or grad student, and getting it published, is [i]exactly [/i]what kids will do (or should do) in college. Very valuable experience for a high school kid to prepare for college in this way. The only thing that could be wrong with this is if the kid did not actually write the paper.

Much of the article is crying that it's unfair because only wealthy parents can afford to buy this for their kids. Meh. The fees they describe are not that out of reach for a middle-class family. And wealthy families have so many other advantages that this is comparatively minor. Being able to say they are "full pay" costs a heck of a lot more than this. Also, the money goes to profs and grad students who are definitely underpaid, and that's good.
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