<p>Okay, I’m just feeling a little, like why bother?</p>
<p>I researched a ton to make sure I had a good, competitive summer program, with actual college work (UMiami marine biology course, 5 credits for 3 weeks) last year, and then an even more challenging one this year (WUSTL, hopefully, for 7 college credits/2-3 college courses in 4 weeks)…I know they aren’t TASP/RSI level, but these seemed more interesting to me anyway.</p>
<p>then, I saw that everyone else in my class was going to those 1 week “leadership conferences” and “medical conferences” where the average cost is over 2000 a week, mostly admitting they were doing it just for the sake of college apps.</p>
<p>my friend told me and then I looked up that a girl at my school took a “volunteering” trip with her parents-when all her photos on facebook have her just doing nothing and captions laughing about how she isn’t volunteering.</p>
<p>I’m just saying, will college admissions ever see how fake these people are? is there ever any justice?</p>
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<li>Those conferences aren’t prestigious.</li>
<li>I hope that girl knows some colleges do frequent Facebook profiles. </li>
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<p>This brings up the point–would it be morally upright to send colleges evidence of unfair play?</p>
<p>I’m not going to send facebook photos to college admissions people-but its like, will it ever catch with you?! </p>
<p>the only reason I even know about this is because she made my friend do her physics data (3-4 hours of data collecting) because she was “sick” when she was really just on vacation. She also got multiple people to do sections of her take home math test (on her wall, people are giving her the answers to like 20-30 for example)…</p>
<p>She didn’t “make” your friend or those other students do her work. They stupidly agreed to do that.</p>
<p>true, I agree they were stupid…there’s no arguing that.</p>
<p>my friend did the physics data because she said she had the other half of it, when she really didn’t. that friend is up a creek now, luckily, she found out with a few days left to finish the project</p>
<p>They assumed that they were helping a friend/acquaintance in need, thus making them not as stupid as they are driven by interpersonal dynamics. I’m surprised at how many people were willing to cheat for her though.</p>
<p>Yeah, colleges know what’s prestigious/not…Even the WUSTL one is something that you have to pay for. I mean, sure you have to get admitted but it still costs. I applied and they gave me like around 4000, but it was still over 1000 to attend. Oh well…I would have likes to go. So I don’t know how much that helps in admissions.</p>
<p>I think the free programs are weighted more?</p>
<p>And how can colleges frequent Facebook profiles with the privacy settings? (assuming you have them set correctly?)</p>
<p>And morally upright?? Hmmm…good question. I think it’s morally okay to do, but personally I wouldn’t go through the trouble.</p>
<p>Kevin,</p>
<p>Do you know ALL your friends on Facebook? Most people don’t, so it would be pretty easy for a college to make up a fake profile that looked real enough. I also heard somewhere that for Myspace, they could actually go back and look at what you had on your page at any time, even if you deleted it, so I’m wondering whether or not they have some similar special privileges for Facebook.</p>