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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just posted a few minutes ago in the comments of the article. Probably not legit, but who knows. This article is getting some traction in WSJ comments!

Stephen M
21 minutes ago

Application Mentor here at Crimson. I assure you to the depths of my soul that Crimson is engaged in outright, wholesale application fraud. There are no official editorial guidelines whatsoever, so tutors end up writing parts or most of student essays on their behalf.  It is the opposite of pedagogically informed feedback a professional English teacher would provide.

Many Crimson students are absolutely abysmal writers. There is literally no way to get them to construct even halfway decent responses than by providing the language ourselves. Crimson administration turns are completely blind eye to this practice and even tacitly encourages it.

This is a criminal-level consultancy every admissions officer in the US should be aware of.[/quote]

No way of knowing if this is true,  but there is the potential for a perverse incentive structure.  That and the cynicism of the owner suggests this is very likely.  The consultancy’s (and presumably a consultant’s) success is based on student placement into selective schools.  One part of the equation is to screen for students already primed for a measure of success. The other is to put thumbs on the scale where a student may not be strong. If a consultant has a student with a poor essay, they can try to coach them up to produce a better output which may be time consuming and imperfect or write it for them (more or less).

The goal is admission to an ivy,  not the best fit/school for the student with authentic representation.[/quote]

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