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[quote=Anonymous]This is such a bizarre story.

A law firm internship at 16 is NOT lifechanging. He's not going to be asked to do anything important, OP. It's certainly nice to have on the college app, but a lot of admission officers will think he got it through connections, not talent, unless he can point to a legitimate-sounding competitive selection process for the internship. And the scholarship? Don't count on it changing the nature of colleges he can apply to. Tuition has risen very rapidly and scholarships have NOT, so it might not change the family's college calculus at all.

If you have a kid of the same age, it seems like you would know all this.

And it's not the teen's parents who are pressuring you, but apparently your mother, who has even less of an understanding of the college landscape than you.

So things are not adding up here. I would welcome my nephew and call him out on his rudeness every single time, because I've got a 19 year old and a 14 year old and sometimes they get cocky. I would very comfortable treating him like my kid in this situation.

But I'm thinking this may be a troll post, or you may not be presenting all the facts, or may not have all the facts.

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