<p>So I’m a rising senior in high school looking to apply to top 20-30 colleges and also some top liberal arts colleges. For the past three summers (every summer in high school), I’ve worked for a college application consulting startup, first working as an unpaid intern dealing with day-to-day operations and then later taking on more a role in the management area. I had a chance to intern for this start-up at first due to family connections, but was later invited back on the team next summer as a peer to the six core workers. </p>
<p>Two of the three summers, I traveled to China with the company, as their target market resides mainly in Asia. The first summer I worked with them, I worked in China and did a variety of things, such as compiling content for top 100 US Universities and creating presentations and reports on competitors alongside a group of six other interns, all attending college in the US. </p>
<p>The next year, I worked from the US, as the company had pivoted and needed to figure out logistics for its new business model. My work this year consisted of researching platforms for online consultation and eventually choosing the platform the business now uses and recruiting over 100 students and graduates from top 30 US Colleges for potential work with the company. </p>
<p>This past year, I joined the company on a marketing trip to China, where we ran a two week summer camp 3 times in China and Korea. The camp consisted of two parts, an SAT/ACT portion and a college application portion. Since I scored a 36 on my ACT, I came on the trip to help teach the ACT portion of the trip and also as added marketing value. In the weeks leading up to the camp, I created the entire curriculum and created 10-20 hours worth of lecturing presentations. In addition, I played a role in managing the other interns and overseeing their work. </p>
<p>The problem that I just noticed this year is that I’m applying to college and I’ve spent my three summers of high school working for a college application consulting company. I have a well informed view of the college application process, so I plan on working on my application with minimal help, and actually presenting myself in an ethical and truthful manner. What I’m not sure about is how to approach this in my college admissions, since working for a college application consulting company basically says that I got a lot of help on my application, which I don’t plan to do. I would omit it from my application if it did not take up such a large portion of my summer activities. </p>
<p>I was wondering what you guys thought of this situation and if you have any suggestions on how to best present these experiences in my application.</p>