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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the thing about this that makes me mad is when college AOs say, "We have people call our school to complain than X kid got in when Y kid did not.  But the thing is, they don't know why they were admitted, they didn't see their application or read their essay. We know what we're doing. We dont make mistakes." (The Dartmouth dean says this a lot).

I'd never call a school to rat a kid out, but .. no,  Dartmouth, you don't know a kid better than his/her classmates do. Some of these kids have known each other for 12 years .. and you spent 12 minutes reading their app. There are certainly things on the application that their classmates don't know, of course. But they also know that little Larla was not the lead author on that journal, did not start a NFP, didn't play varsity tennis,  and did not organize the clothing drive that was the essay topic. There was no clothing drive.

THat's the part that bugs me.[/quote]

Colleges are not new at this - they know how to verify certain information, and with whom, and they know when a parent starts a non-profit in their home country, and they absolutely know when a parent is jealous of the kid down the street, who was accepted, while their kid was not.  Don't dig the hole deeper for your kid, parents. [/quote]

Not everything is even verifiable. Just thinking about the charity work that I personally do, between a third and half don't really track who is showing up when. I do a lot of work arranging for food to be packaged at our church and then delivered to a homeless shelter we support. Kids doing it through the youth group have a sign in sheet that isn't really used, but other teens just show up with friends or families and work for a few hours. If a college called to verify hours worked or duties performed, no one would be able to give a definitive yes or no [/quote]

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