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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article about paying for guaranteed admittance is so crazy, I couldn't stop shaking my head in disbelief.

Full pay isn't even a consideration with Think Tank Services.  Unbelievable!

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-03/college-consultant-thinktank-guarantees-admission-for-hefty-price

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[i]Aaron says his ThinkTank counselor has mapped out a three-year plan of language instruction, advanced placement classes, SAT bootcamp, and hundreds of hours of extracurricular activities such as the golf team and [b]Best Buddies (a group that pairs kids with special-education students)[/b] to culminate in his college applications in late 2016. [/i]

Oh, so special-ed students are tools to be used in these kids' college acceptance rat race? Yuck.... 
I'm amazed college admissions officers still give any weight to this phony volunteerism charade.

Colleges should map the post graduate career and volunteer choices of their graduates back to the interests and activities that were listed on the admissions application.  How many of the kids listing "Uganda service trip" in high school ended up working with Doctors Without Borders 7 years after graduation?  It would be very crude, but would certainly allow them to discount the sincerity factor in these well-orchestrated high school programs.  The only tools currently at the disposal of the college admissions officers is to use continuity of interest, essays and interviews to get under the hood and detect padding and/or insincerity - and there isn't much time for deep analysis given the flood of applicants.

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