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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep. 100%

The amount of lying and marketing oneself and trying to show you have some trauma or special adversity or belong to some outlier group so you can curry favor to Admin officers.  It's gross.

And the fake non-profits and the no standards at times with overinflated gpas and no test results.

It's really gotten so out of hand given the sheer volume of applicants universities now face.

I swear it should be changed to this:

Everyone that meets certain requirements all get put in the hat and then they pull out admits like a lottery.  At some point it's just too much.[/quote]

All of these actions are based on heresy, mostly from parents who are just as clueless as the next person. I've never heard an AO say they want trauma or non-profits. Stop believing random strangers for something this important.[/quote]

Not true.  The heart-string stories.  A friend was an AO at a top state university and the discussions were often said of very qualified kids from MC/UMC/!% that they never had to experience adversity.  They were essentially penalized for coming from functional, normal backgrounds and being neurotypical 'normal' , but exceptional kids.[/quote]

Yeah WTF a major goal of mind as a parent is to ensure my kids DO NOT experience adversity and now I’m hearing I shouldn’t have done that.[/quote]

Adversity can be many things, as long as the kid deals with it and mom and dad don’t swoop in.  My kid got a C and wrote about it in an essay.  She wrote about how she struggled and had never struggled and was embarrassed to ask for help.  How the following semester she met with her teacher weekly and did extra work, etc.  she got in virtually everywhere she applied.  The key was that she had to take action and figure it out, not her parents.[/quote]

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