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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Generally the first step is they call the school counselor to see what they know. [/quote]

[b]What school has the bandwidth to call high school counselors[/b] to inquire about some random extracurricular in a laundry list of activities as they review applications from thousands upon thousands of applicants? [/quote]

The AOs just email to verify, and, trust me, the high schools respond fast because their reputations are on the line![/quote]

They aren't calling about every applicant, they're likely calling about the ones they're admitting to ensure they're not admitting liars. So it's only a small fraction of the applicants. And they're only asking about the major activities - for my kid for example (Swarthmore) it was a major activity she's dedicated hundreds of hours to and it's possibly what got her in to the school, so they called the organization to confirm hours and level of activity. Took five minutes. No different really than an interview which is also a time-suck for the colleges.[/quote]

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