Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Unclear?
But there’s a reason they are all jumping on “Glimpse” videos. They want to see kids talk off the cuff for 120 seconds in their own words looking at a camera.
Think they are trying to filter out for kids who aren’t able to socially integrate.
Or, the more likely reason is they want to see the kids ethnicity so they can continue using that for admissions without putting it on paper.
Anonymous wrote:It sounds like this, which one of the private schools required when DS was applying a few years ago.
https://www.enrollment.org/tools/snapshot/character-skills-snapshot
It presumably gives an insight into interpersonal skills and maturity. My guess is that these colleges are finding that some applicants who seem great on paper lack EQ skills.
Anonymous wrote:at best, it's to work around fake applications written by others.
at worse, it's the ol' Georgetown "attach a picture" thing - we like the good looking!
Anonymous wrote:Unclear?
But there’s a reason they are all jumping on “Glimpse” videos. They want to see kids talk off the cuff for 120 seconds in their own words looking at a camera.
Think they are trying to filter out for kids who aren’t able to socially integrate.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It sounds like it might be a way to check that it’s the kid that wrote the essay and not Mommy or a consultant etc. Admissions folks also tend to notice if someone who is really articulate on paper turns up to an interview and is less so.
At my university we are also doing things like having students attach a short video to an essay submission where you respond to questions like “what inspired you to choose this topic?” Or “is there anything you changed your mind about after writing the essay?” If writing the essay involved a “thought process” these questions are easy. If writing the essay involved writing a check or pushing a button they are somewhat harder.
What you think is “harder” is yet another coachable hoop. You think you are gleaning insight, when what you are really doing is funding an arms race benefitting coaching. A little self awareness would be nice.
Or someone else entirely. You don’t include photo identification with apps so anybody could stand in for you.
lol- this is ridiculous
Exactly. How could they even verify you are who they say you are in these dialogues?
Anonymous wrote:Funny in our tour of both Yale and Duke we kept commenting on how good looking the guys were. Very prom king!
Anonymous wrote:The title of the article says it all:
Elite Colleges Have Found a New Virtue for Applicants to Fake
Anonymous wrote:This post show DCUM's weird aversion to all things they perceive as weirdo/quirky/woke. Honestly, I think they throw in most high school drama departments into this category, ironically usually the most inclusive group of kids in a high school. (When I saw people calling Northwestern "quirky", I thought, they must mean guys who wear birks?)
Glimpses came about to solve an actual problem: applicants from Asia with great apps but got to campus and were not reflective of their apps. Sometimes with language issues. Clearly they had consultants who wrote their apps.
Also, it's a good way to get keep your URM minority numbers from falling off a cliff.
This is just another product w similar motives: including profit.
What a do really enjoy is that the DCUM mafia feels like these products weed out those "weird" kids, but colleges are fine with the vast majority of weird. Many AO staff were those same drama kids. Stay weird! Meanwhile, what these programs actually do is show the AO team who are the bros who talk over other people. The frat boys DCUM moms love and AOs do not. They already admitted the athletic recruits. They dont' need more cosplay lax players.
So .. think what you want folks, but the call is coming from inside the house.
Anonymous wrote:In 4-5 years time they are going to have to start scrounging for applicants with the population cliff. Adding more BS won’t help.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:These schools are realizing that many "top students" are complete weirdos.
Have you been to a tour at a top20 lately? Or an accepted student day? I have and a large percentage of the crowd looks like they spent high school in their bedroom.
This.
Heard from one T10 school admission officer on a recalibration in their social metrics for this year.
Yes. We recently went to an accepted student function for an Ivy. The kids by-in-large were REALLY weird. No other way to say it.
Out of 40 maybe 5 appeared to be social, typical kids. My husband and I left saying: "no doubt these kids are brilliant but are they going to be employable in a few years when extensive in-person interviewing is involved?"
It's the colleges' own fault. They chose to admit kids who have the resumes 40 year olds at age 18 and focused on pointy, obscure interests. There is simply so way to be a typical social teenager and invest in your peers and do all that stuff in 4 years.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Home schooled kids will shine on this activity- they’re more well rounded, well spoken, empathetic, and open to different ideas than any mainstream kid will ever be.
Former homeschooled kid here: this will totally depend on the homeschooled kid. DD has a few homeschooled friends who would do amazing, but also some homeschooled friends who would...not.
100% this.
Some homeschooled kids are amazing. Others not so much.
But amazingly, ALL homeschooling parents think their kids are amazingly accomplished. And are willing to devote hours to tell you all about it.