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e) family has extraordinary wealth. (Such that they are capable of 7- or 8-digit donations.) Plus good grades/test scores. [/quote]

You say this on every thread. It is not the wealth itself that gets the kid accepted, it is the wealth that gives the kid access to things that get them accepted. We know one family who decided their 5th grade DD should set up a charity in Malawi building school huts. So they invested in that and that's what she does every summer. It wasn't her idea, or her cash, but she did it and it will probably impress at least one admissions person.[/quote]

yes, it's the wealth itself in many cases, look at the ex-prez and some in his fam

no, nobody will be impressed that her parents set up something and she went there every summer, no more than a kid that worked at mcdonald's every summer in high school[/quote]

Try to take a more positive view of this. Maybe the girl going to Malawi every summer to build school huts has very wealthy parents that are actually doing a wonderful thing - teaching their child to give back to others and to see a different perspective on the world. [/quote]
If that was the goal, they would have set it up in their names (not the 5th grader's name) and had her participate anyway.  They were dumb thought, they should have waited until around 9th grade when someone might actually think it was the kid's idea.[/quote]

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