Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does admissions care about starting a non profit these days?
I can't imagine any school being impressed with just setting up a non profit.
You can set up a non-profit online for $45 in about 25 minutes (not joking).
Anonymous wrote:Does admissions care about starting a non profit these days?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sounds like you may know a few who do this and are adding “many” into your statements. How many parents are telling you that they hired people to write their kids’ essays.
Many meaning more 10, not a majority. I can think of at least ten kids whose moms are asking the community for donations for their kid’s nonprofit. The better ones with professional looking websites and big donors are definitely crafted by parents. My kid has been doing science Olympiad since elementary school and I saw the parents who would carry the build structures like it was theirs and be the ones to explain how it works. I’m not saying all or the majority has parent help. There is one kid in my kid’s grade whose dad definitely built and won first. My child also competed in the same event and placed top 5. We didn’t help at all besides buy him some supplies he requested.
Our child definitely grew up with privilege and also has advantages. It is obviously easier for a well established adult in their forties or fifties to set up a start up or nonprofit than a 15yo.
So you really have no proof. Just a suspicion which you state as fact since the real annoyance is for you is that kids who must be getting help (per you) are the ones beating your kid.
I have a hilarious Science Olympiad story (and I’m totally outing my kid and embarrassing her but it was a long time ago). My kid and her partner did SO in elementary and did the Robotics section. They built their robot from scratch with the guidance of her partner’s fabulous mom. It was clearly a home made robot and it was both kids’ first competition. Imagine their shock when virtually every other team (or maybe every other, I don’t remember) had a Lego Mind storm and basically just had to build it from a kit with instructions and program it. Their robots were fast and efficient and blew our kids’ away. Our kids literally had a rock on theirs they were using as a ballast (because the mom asked them what they thought they needed to solve the problem of the robot tipping and what material they could find to use—instead of doing it for them). They lost (and some teams literally laughed at them), but I think they won. They got to know each other and had fun building it and they learned a ton. It was fascinating to see, though, how smug some parents were, how horrified others were and how amused/impressed some were. Clearly, they had done the work themselves. Not relevant for college, of course.
Anonymous wrote:Does admissions care about starting a non profit these days?
Anonymous wrote:The nonprofit establishment is pretty extreme, but internship/research acquisition help is normal if the parents have the connections and this continues during and after college. In fact at one of my dc's college orientations they told the parents to be ready to use their network to help their kids.
Anonymous wrote:Yes very common. Parents doing a lot of BS for their kids. On top of that, those same kids are cheating. Total joke when they get in to a top school.
Anonymous wrote:It may or may not be common, but it is definitely abnormal.
Anonymous wrote:Colleges claim they can tell if it is the kid or the parents, but I'm not sure they can.
How would colleges know if they got it wrong, and why would people keep doing it if they were always found out.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sounds like you may know a few who do this and are adding “many” into your statements. How many parents are telling you that they hired people to write their kids’ essays.
Many meaning more 10, not a majority. I can think of at least ten kids whose moms are asking the community for donations for their kid’s nonprofit. The better ones with professional looking websites and big donors are definitely crafted by parents. My kid has been doing science Olympiad since elementary school and I saw the parents who would carry the build structures like it was theirs and be the ones to explain how it works. I’m not saying all or the majority has parent help. There is one kid in my kid’s grade whose dad definitely built and won first. My child also competed in the same event and placed top 5. We didn’t help at all besides buy him some supplies he requested.
Our child definitely grew up with privilege and also has advantages. It is obviously easier for a well established adult in their forties or fifties to set up a start up or nonprofit than a 15yo.
So you really have no proof. Just a suspicion which you state as fact since the real annoyance is for you is that kids who must be getting help (per you) are the ones beating your kid.
I have a hilarious Science Olympiad story (and I’m totally outing my kid and embarrassing her but it was a long time ago). My kid and her partner did SO in elementary and did the Robotics section. They built their robot from scratch with the guidance of her partner’s fabulous mom. It was clearly a home made robot and it was both kids’ first competition. Imagine their shock when virtually every other team (or maybe every other, I don’t remember) had a Lego Mind storm and basically just had to build it from a kit with instructions and program it. Their robots were fast and efficient and blew our kids’ away. Our kids literally had a rock on theirs they were using as a ballast (because the mom asked them what they thought they needed to solve the problem of the robot tipping and what material they could find to use—instead of doing it for them). They lost (and some teams literally laughed at them), but I think they won. They got to know each other and had fun building it and they learned a ton. It was fascinating to see, though, how smug some parents were, how horrified others were and how amused/impressed some were. Clearly, they had done the work themselves. Not relevant for college, of course.