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I wonder what really happened here: "The judge said Javice had assembled a “very powerful list” of her charitable acts, which included organizing soup kitchens
by geor9e 1y ago
I wonder what really happened here:
"The judge said Javice had assembled a “very powerful list” of her charitable acts, which included organizing soup kitchens for the homeless when she was 7 years old and designing career programs for formerly incarcerated women."
At least for all my classmates doing the college application process, claims like that were almost always wild exaggerations of what we really did.
- masfuerte 1y agoIt seems like the effect of these college requirements is to teach ambitious young Americans that the way to get ahead is to cheat.
- wat10000 1y agoIt's a valuable lesson.
- qingcharles 1y agoThey need to spend more time on the "not getting caught" chapter, I guess.
- ryandrake 1y agoUnfortunately, it's an arms race of cheating. Everyone else was the president of 5 school clubs, volunteered at a soup kitchen and animal shelter for 2 years, tutored disadvantaged kids for 4 hours a day, was a varsity athlete in 3 sports, played the trombone in band, and won 10 academic awards... so everyone has to say that in order to at least seem like an average candidate to college admissions.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoI dropped out and got my GED. I don't think there's one thing in my K-12 transcripts that would look good. I was not exactly a valedictorian-level student. Done a bunch of stuff, since then, but it's not right to throw onto LinkedIn. It's the kind of stuff we don't take credit for.
- piker 1y ago> designing career programs for formerly incarcerated women. Gonna come in handy!
- duxup 1y agoDid the judge do any due diligence on that list?