National Academy of Future Scientists and Technologists

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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I received a letter of nomination for this program but wondered if it is a scam.
Any one have any experience w this?

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The program is from the National Academy of Future Scientists and technologists.

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I guess the search button wasn’t working when you posted.

http://www.collegeconfidential.com/search-results/?cx=013579521852154800353%3Avvp1k6kluvq&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=National+Academy+of+Future+Scientists

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I have also received a letter from said Academy, but based on my research it is not very educational. I opened my letter today, and it seems to be a scam of some sort. I’m sure you can go and they’ll speak to you for 3 days about all who knows what, but it is a for profit organization that is not truly beneficial. The letter’s return address is to Harvard Square, which is an office building complex, not having anything to do with Harvard University. A trick with words. I know it was sent from Virginia, but don’t know what correlation that has to anything. Both of my older siblings have received a letter of this sort, but this specific association was created in 2014, and one of my siblings received a letter of this sort before 2014. The only explanation I have for this is that they change the title or origin of their association every couple of years for their own safety or so that they don’t ever really get found out.

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These programs use deliberately misleading marketing and they are way overpriced. My daughter just got a similar one and they charge for 3 days what some other great programs charge for 3 weeks. Totally overpriced and it’s slickly packaged to make people think it’s some great honor to be invited, which it most definitely is not.

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  1. this post is from almost a year ago, if you have a question just make your own thread since OP is probably gone, and you can get more personalized help
  2. agreed that it is overpriced and while not a scam it is nothing that would make a college take a second look if that is what you're interested in. a bunch of people at my school as well as myself got the letter and you don't even need to get the letter to attend, as long as you pay you can go.