HELP!!--GPA concerns for PENN admission

T26E4
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 06:01:13 +0000

“Why shouldn’t I start the organization?”

In the three posts to this thread, it seems the sole reason (beside the benefit of some $ being raised and donated) is that you feel the need to be a “founder”: that’s why. You don’t seem to be out in the sticks so you can’t tell us existing ad hoc charities don’t already exist. Thus, you and tens of thousands of other selective school aspirants will “start” another one-time ad hoc charity to donate $300 to some “insert needy cause here” event.

If you’d told us that you want to clear your schedule so you can work your local soup kitchen more or gather clothes for the women’t shelter, then we might actually believe you are doing more than trying to generate resume padding.

I know this seems unduly harsh. But this is how mercenary or contrived these pursuits look to us as adults and they aren’t lost on admissions officers.