| "Is that the one whose professionally-published book was plagiarized? "Packaged" when it comes to students who have published things typically would refer to students who manage to get their writings published by a vanity press -- the kind of press that publishes anything that a person is willing to have published. Her book, however, was professionally published. Unfortunately, parts of it were plagiarized, which indicates her lack of ethics, not packaging."
Well, that's not exactly the story. Her parents paid something like $20,000 for IvyWise Consulting. She got a half-million dollar book deal in large part because of the connections of her IvyWise consultant before she had even written the book.
Most non-academic EC's can be "packaged" or manufactured. (However, in this case you could argue that this was an intellectual EC since she wrote a book.) The exceptions are athletic performance and getting elected president of the class or something like that. |