Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:52     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Camp counselor.

I think schools are increasingly getting wise to all of the manufactured, overly curated summer plans that kids have.


100%. "Founder of a non-profit" is a huge red flag, as are many of these pay-to-play research and academic experiences.


Founding things is getting old. Because they then die the second the kid gets into school. Admissions officers are saying better to take something that exists and make it better than clutter the world with yet another new thing that it doesn't need. YMMV.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:50     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Anonymous wrote:Camp counselor.

I think schools are increasingly getting wise to all of the manufactured, overly curated summer plans that kids have.


100%. "Founder of a non-profit" is a huge red flag, as are many of these pay-to-play research and academic experiences.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:48     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
2 (WASP) I know well enough to know worked as day camp counselors.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:46     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Camp counselor.

I think schools are increasingly getting wise to all of the manufactured, overly curated summer plans that kids have.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:41     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Worked at Grotto Pizza and also participated in an online STEM research program for HS students through NYU (was during the pandemic).

Swarthmore.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:29     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Anonymous wrote:chill the F out? is my rec. for all of them. and def earn money regardles if their parents "need" them to or not.


Why is there always a holier-than-thou poster who pretends not to care about college stuff and is always telling everyone to chill out but is on the DCUM college board on a Sunday?
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:25     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Anonymous wrote:Pomona ‘30 but got into Yale and Brown too if that helps.

Helped organize no kings protests with a national organization and went to Paris to work with some organizers holding activism workshops and demonstrations.

Applied as Economics and Neuroscience at every institution.

Sounds like an interesting child! Would love to hear more from this profile.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:22     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Vanderbilt.
Slept and hung out with friends like a normal person
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:16     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Cashier at Trader Joe’s
Wrote CommonApp about customer they had a conversation with

In at Northwestern ED
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:13     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
chill the F out? is my rec. for all of them. and def earn money regardles if their parents "need" them to or not.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:12     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Pomona ‘30 but got into Yale and Brown too if that helps.

Helped organize no kings protests with a national organization and went to Paris to work with some organizers holding activism workshops and demonstrations.

Applied as Economics and Neuroscience at every institution.


Of course Pomona loved that!


Is Pomona the new Brown?

Pomona and brown have been similar for like 2 decades
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:11     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Anonymous wrote:Worked on a farm
PT job mowing lawns
Hung around with friends

- Ivy


Is this a rural admit or was the farm an “urban farm”?
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:10     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Anonymous wrote:WASP Ed. Interned at lab at prestigious med school. She was given little to do and was completely bored. I really don’t think this is what moved the needle.
Spend summer volunteering somewhere in meaningful way and, if necessary, prep for SAT to get 1530+.


Isn’t prepping for SAT summer before senior year a bit late? I thought list kids have tested 2-3 times by this point
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:08     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Pomona ‘30 but got into Yale and Brown too if that helps.

Helped organize no kings protests with a national organization and went to Paris to work with some organizers holding activism workshops and demonstrations.

Applied as Economics and Neuroscience at every institution.


Of course Pomona loved that!


Is Pomona the new Brown?
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 18:06     Subject: Ivy+/WASP accepts: what did they do summer before senior year?
rowed (recruited)