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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys, please... if you can tell kids whose resume entries are faked, you don't think the people who do this for a living can?

They can.

Stop worrying about that.  It's not a thing.[/quote]

I really don't believe this is true. 15 years ago, AOs loved those kids going to Kenya working in orphanages before they decided, wait a minute here ...

And now they LOVE the podcasts or YouTube channels or foundations. Those "passion projects" you don't know about because a student really only spend 4 days over the summer building that passion.  It's kinda impossible to go through for a year or two not to see this play out.

I don't think it will last forever, but it's a thing now. The example about elephant helper given in the Jeff Selling book is real. And if you read that book at the same time they rejected a lower income applicant who had working 20+ hours a week as an activity, an amount of time the AdCom thought was not "realistic".  Which is so crazy to me.  Lots of kids do that.  Both these examples would have been easy to dig into if a reader had 15 extra minutes.[/quote]

But neither of those kids were faking.

"[i]she caught the admissions directors’ attention when they learned she was a certified mahout, a trained caretaker for elephants in Thailand.[/i]"

https://nypost.com/2020/09/12/colleges-reveal-the-secret-formula-for-deciding-who-gets-in/

I am not saying the adcom made the right choice between the two - that's the prerogative of the college.  We are speaking of lies for applications, and none of your post illustrates any of that.

It's not a thing.  Certainly not in any consequential volume.[/quote]

You can’t put “this kid worked 20 hours a week at Cold Stone” in the school promotional materials or brag about it on the admissions blog, it’s completely ordinary.

But “certified elephant trainer”? Wowza!!!!

Straight to the YouTube channel. Look at the amazing and exotic kids we have here.

The unusual will always win out, for certain values of unusual.[/quote]

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