Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If parents are really smart their kids start one together and then all get into Ivies.
FWIW, I'm the PP about the kids who started a food and service nonprofit in COVID. None of them got into Ivies REA/ED. But all three got into good schools and that EC - and full pay - may have helped.
The sad thing is that AOs still fall for all these glam posturing. The top student in my kid's school started a social media account and posted aggressively 6 months before Nov1. The posts stopped the day after Harvard REA came out-he was in and done.
The sad thing is that no one knows what AOs actually fall for, and parents cargo cult all these totems of admissions.
Anonymous wrote:What's crazy is that this stuff matters at all for getting into a *school*. It's really about these institutions trying to pick future business winners who will get rich and donate money or inflated the school's reputstion so the admins can get their salaries.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If parents are really smart their kids start one together and then all get into Ivies.
FWIW, I'm the PP about the kids who started a food and service nonprofit in COVID. None of them got into Ivies REA/ED. But all three got into good schools and that EC - and full pay - may have helped.
The sad thing is that AOs still fall for all these glam posturing. The top student in my kid's school started a social media account and posted aggressively 6 months before Nov1. The posts stopped the day after Harvard REA came out-he was in and done.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Haven't schools "caught on" to that though? Kind of like the several thousand dollar "service trip" that rich kids take so they can play soccer with kids in developing countries and claim how much of a difference they are making?
Yes, they’ve caught on. I think they can sniff out the phony ones. The impressive ones started at about 12 years old and grew more successful every year over the six years the students have been doing it.
Let’s say a student has a nonprofit that focuses on handing out gloves to the homeless and needy. It started in one section of the city and they handed out 40 pairs. The next winter with volunteers they branched out to a larger section of the city and doubled the amount. Soon it expanded to three cities in the area and you’ve gained a few sponsors who donate significant amounts. The student’s essay could say that he’s hoping to go to Harvard and continue my work in Cambridge.
This would be impressive. Not too complicated but fills a need and takes some real work.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of the kids who “publish” (I.e. their parents pay a prof to “work” with their kid and put their name on a paper).
Pretty sure no professors would go for this as a paid arrangement. Come on!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If parents are really smart their kids start one together and then all get into Ivies.
FWIW, I'm the PP about the kids who started a food and service nonprofit in COVID. None of them got into Ivies REA/ED. But all three got into good schools and that EC - and full pay - may have helped.
The sad thing is that AOs still fall for all these glam posturing. The top student in my kid's school started a social media account and posted aggressively 6 months before Nov1. The posts stopped the day after Harvard REA came out-he was in and done.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks a high school student is actually running their own successful non profit: I would love to sell you a timeshare.
THIS! I know a student who started a non profit where she ostensibly baked hundreds of cupcakes a week and sold them, donating the proceeds to her charity. The kicker- it was actually the family's nanny who did all of the baking and packaging!!
Anonymous wrote:Fillers. I started a nonprofit. I did not realize I should have used my kid. It’s not very expensive or hard.
Anonymous wrote:Haven't schools "caught on" to that though? Kind of like the several thousand dollar "service trip" that rich kids take so they can play soccer with kids in developing countries and claim how much of a difference they are making?
Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of the kids who “publish” (I.e. their parents pay a prof to “work” with their kid and put their name on a paper).