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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No to Sara Haberson. Thankfully my DS did not take her advice on a number of issues - did the opposite. Ended up at a HYPSM. [/quote]

Thus, us too[/quote]

I'm curious what are the major things that she gets wrong. I follow her on insta and I often feel her advice is hit or miss. [/quote]

Examples: Only reporting AP scores of 5s on your applications and don’t list a college summer program because it shows privilege.[/quote]

Ingenius prep says to only list summer programs if you don't have adequate evidence for major. Its considered neutral and gives the least amount of EC points in the scoring rubrics (just FyI). I mean if you have nothing else, yeah, include it. But hopefully it was reasonably selective and not just an 11k money grab. Bc that won't move the needle on your application.[/quote]

There was a really interesting segment in this recent podcast episode with feedback from a former Rice AO (linked below) - his perspective was: if these activities "add to your toolkit", which I interpreted as "back up your choice of major/academic interests", they can be useful. But only if they're adding something new to the overall picture.

https://collegeadmissionspodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/inside-admissions-with-brandon-mack[/quote]

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