Extracurriculars...specifically, starting a non proft.

ctyankee
Tue, 05 May 2009 00:33:19 +0000

Nothing against the O.P. but this is just the latest bandwagon to get on to make a kid’s EC stand out from the others. In rather wealthy towns by me this sort of thing comes up every year. Kids set up a charity as ‘their’ idea, get their picture in the papers send the article to admissions, etc. etc. In the last decade it’s just the latest version of one-upmanship with the charities often becoming nothing but a memory after the kid goes to college.

There is not a chance in the world that top colleges don’t see and notice this trend. It would be interesting to know what they really think about it.