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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]people, the average tenure of an AO post-covid is 18 months. they idea that these 24 year olds who ended up someone working for the college they graduated from because that's where they did their works study during undergrad have "seen it all" is laughable.

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Honestly, I think that would make them more savvy because it would have been their friends (or themselves) doing these things!

Our experience was that there were a few that were meh or the parent in our magnet community -- all high flyer kids. One was started when kid was in MS by the parent, and she operated in the kid's name. We all figured it out because we knew the parent from a school service org (she was heavily involved and took some of the school's donors when she started the "kid's" charity) and because even though the emails came "from" the kid, if you responded, it was the mom who would write back. Always. And, the mom negotiated w/ donors etc.  But, the kid was a really nice person, and their name stopped appearing on communication a few years later, and they went to state school, so I am guessing that the kid did not list this as their personal start up.

The meh ones were all online tutoring during covid. My kid signed up to help and was never assigned a kid. I don't think there was a need because our school district had free tutoring available. I don't know how these kids represented this on apps, but they did have a nice website.

I'm not too stressed about it. I think AOs are wise to this stuff. Do they catch everything? Maybe not. But, they are going to know that some things would need adult help and others are duplicates of existing services. They're also consider a lot of other factors on the app. Some schools choose random accepted students to verify all their ECs. I've read some student posts on reddit of panicked kids who can't get a club affiliation verified.[/quote]

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