It will be funny when 50 kids submit an essay on the joys of macrame. I hope the admissions have their shredders ready for this.
I don’t even see how this is a business. If one of my kids wanted to post their application, I would offer them $20 not to do it. Of course, I don’t understand why something like airbnb is worth the same as Hilton.
How will they even know that it’s the actual submitted application? Maybe I should have my daughter write a joke essay for this. Also, how will they know how successful the application was? Won’t the kids who do this just say they got in everywhere to maximize views?
I think this idea showed up on CC- don’t remember, but think it was one of the associates pushing the service. Honestly, the last folks I’d want advising my kids would be other hs kids and college kids. They do not know what adcoms do.
The job of a good consultant would be to introduce a student to additional schools that they may not have already been aware of, beyond the obvious. It’s psychologically limiting for students (who we would hope are looking to develop a balanced list), to focus on a ‘top 5’ rather than encourage them to have a solid foundation of safe/match/reach schools.
To become fixated - and pay to access information – on how to get into a finite number of ‘dream’ schools seems like a poor use of both time and money.
I suppose the bigger question is, if there are widely available programs to detect academic plagiarism, why wouldn’t a school have a screening program for applications as well?
There’s a sucker born every minute.