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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Relevant here:

https://thecriticalreader.com/adultification/

"So what happens after high school graduation? The kids who run foundations/ non-profits/ programs, at least in my super competitive silicon valley suburb, don’t go on to keep up this facade for the rest of their lives (why would they?). Most of the kids in my area, myself included, went on to major in econ/CS and sell our souls out to a giant tech company/ investment bank/ consulting firm after graduation. Despite our liberal political inclinations, few Stanford students graduate and truly go on to advocate for the communities they supposedly dedicated themselves to in high school. Sure, there are some exceptions.

But for the most part, there’s a huge campus mentality of “ditching your high school self” and “getting to live a little for the next 4 years” on the Farm because a good portion of us–especially unhooked applicants like myself–spent almost all of our high school years to get into schools like Stanford.

For the record, lots of my supplements (including my Stanford one) talked about how “I was driven to empower students from East San Jose/ Oakland from the beginning of my journey,” but clearly, that’s not the case. And [admissions officers] never noticed, as both my Stanford and Yale regional AO gave me hand-written, physical notes in my acceptance packages telling me how they “could just feel my enthusiasm for using art as a praxis of empowerment.”[/quote]

:-).  But of course.. It didn't need a tell-all to bring out this truth.  Anyone who thought otherwise is a fool.[/quote]

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