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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a professor and the idea of strategic position is so nauseating to me that I feel like writing a letter to our admissions office to let them know about what I read in this forum and others.

To be clear, I am not attacking the OP. She did what she felt she had to do to benefit her child. However, favoring students with unusual niche interests is clearly not the best way to find the most authentic students. Maybe this approach was more authentic 10 years ago before college admissions officers and parents pushed it en masse, but clearly this is no longer the way. [/quote]
You don’t have to write to them, as they’ll figure that out after seeing thousands of applications that are interested in how to further refine the salt to make French fries taste better. The thing is, a strategy works until it doesn’t work anymore — when that has become common knowledge among private consultants! Those very top colleges might deliberately be looking for those who can do this nonsense ahead of others, as the same people would do well  in consulting and marketing and sales and investment jobs![/quote]

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