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Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t seem believable. Don’t you put your job title on the application. A development office would use a different database to research you (eg what your charitable contributions are).

Actually I don’t think the common app or the school specific apps asked about parents jobs, just where we went to school.

It asked for field. So instead of listing a title, you list your field

Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t seem believable. Don’t you put your job title on the application. A development office would use a different database to research you (eg what your charitable contributions are).

Actually I don’t think the common app or the school specific apps asked about parents jobs, just where we went to school.

I’m guessing this is a small private college known for being “13th grade“ for a lot of very preppy students

We purposely left the household income section blank on the UC application.

Anonymous wrote:Happened to me last year. I assume it is development.

Are you very rich?

If you’re a private school parent, then you’re used to how the schools investigate the parents in addition to the children.

This doesn’t seem believable. Don’t you put your job title on the application. A development office would use a different database to research you (eg what your charitable contributions are).

^ Yes, but only if you applied for financial aid.

I don’t know why they’d do that. They have all the financial information they’d ever need. Not sure what a linked in profile would tell them.

ED is the phase when many colleges pick up full pay students (as well as students with other hooks.) it shows they’re interested and that they want to find out if you can pay in full every year or not so they’re checking out your job and earning capacity. Creepy? Yes. That is what they do nowadays if they can’t guess your income bracket from where you live or attendance at private school, etc..

Anonymous wrote:Bored AOs looking at people with interesting jobs.

I thought they were racing through applications and had 6-10 minutes per app !

Anonymous wrote:I agree it is odd. Is it a small school? Was it an admissions officer or someone else? I can’t imagine admissions officers at schools that get tens of thousands of applications have time to do this.

OP here, totally agree and really not BS. Don’t want to name school but small’ish not super small. Last name is not very common although there are plenty of people with same last name who are not relatives.

Bored AOs looking at people with interesting jobs.

Happened to my friend. Wake Forest.

Was admitted

I agree it is odd. Is it a small school? Was it an admissions officer or someone else? I can’t imagine admissions officers at schools that get tens of thousands of applications have time to do this.