<p>Is Who's Who really a scam? That's what I've been hearing. Why so? Should I really send in my application for it or is it just a waste of time?</p>
<p>It's a scam. Don't waste your time.</p>
<p>Would adcoms just laugh at it or something? Would it hurt if I put in on my application?</p>
<p>i put it on (before i reailzed it was a scam) my college apps but i got into college.
im sure that even if i hadn't put it on there, i still would've gotten rejected/accepted by the same colleges.</p>
<p>but yea i still dont konw how/why it's a scam.</p>
<p>Adcoms will laugh if you put it on the top of your list of ECs. Otherwise they will ignore it as resume fluff.</p>
<p>What about the "all-american scholar" thing?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usaa-academy.com/index.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.usaa-academy.com/index.asp</a></p>
<p>is the "national honor roll" a scam too?
as well as the The National Society of
High School Scholars? <-- that one requires a 45 dollar membership fee which i thought seemed scamdalous.</p>
<p>If they make you pay for it, it's a scam. And Who's Who means nothing to adcoms because it's so ridiculously easy to be printed in that book..</p>
<p>National Honor Roll is also a scam.</p>
<p>ok...whats Who's who, National Honour roll?
Sorry if my q seems pathetically ignorant, but we don't have anything like that here.</p>
<p>Its a scamne where they send letter to every kid in a specific zip code congradulating them on their "accomplishements" and asking them to buy a $300 book with the rest of the honorees. It means nothing if you put in on your resume.</p>
<p>It is a scam. It doesn't help your chances. All you get is your name in a book that no one will ever read or care about.</p>
<p>Actually, if you send in your information, then you might get a scholarship or something, but I dunno much about that.</p>
<p>All of those organizations are scams, and shravas, that is probably company lies.
Arjun, your country is corrupt in other matters of education, I am sure. There must be controversy regarding entrance exams there.</p>
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Arjun, your country is corrupt in other matters of education, I am sure. There must be controversy regarding entrance exams there.
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<p>Actually, no...politic maybe...we got a bunch of corrupt bastards running our govt, but not education.</p>
<p>In the High-school level, the exam of recognition is the National Talent Search Examination and KVPY...both are highly competitive and 100 for each are selected after series of written exams and interviews.
There also are the Olympiads and Science Fairs...which , again are purely merit based. Besides, many regional recognitionb exams are offered...they vary regionally, but agin, are mert based.</p>
<p>For College, its the IIT-JEE (You obviously have heard of IIT). 200,000 students write the Entrance exam and 2000 are selected to the IITs. The admission is purely merit-based. There are reserved seats for backward classes for equal representation.
The other exam is AIEE (All India Engineering Entrance Exam). Its written by 1,000,000 odd students and the best are slected to the NITs again, purely on merit. </p>
<p>So you see, there's no scope for corruption.,..its all merit based, as in through Entrance Examinations.</p>
<p>there has been no controversy fo over 50years. Recently, tho there was one cuz the govt. proposed to increase reservation for back-ward classes (sort of like what u people call AA)...but, it in no affects the quality and merit nature of the exams.</p>
<p>Its one of the things we Indians take great pride in...our educational system.</p>
<p>I love how you use the term "backwards classes." India certianly lacks the social mobility of the United States.</p>
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India certianly lacks the social mobility of the United States.
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<p>India is a young country compared to the US ( and its approx 200 years of independence ). From the way I look at it, India is where US was approx 50 years into its independence. </p>
<p>Back then, African Americans were treated in the same way as the scheduled castes are treated in India. Infact, their condition got significantly better only after the 1960's .. Give India time and I'm confident that it will overcome issues with its social structure just like the US has(to a certain extent).</p>
<p>so it doenst hurt to put these random "awards" on if you have others?</p>
<p>It doesn't hurt.</p>
<p>They are "scams" in some way, but they don't cheat you the same way as those e-mails from the UK lotteries (I keep getting those...). They basically want you to buy their products, such as the book of "qualified" Who's Who students. Someone told me that he used his dog's name to apply. He got in. It just shows you the capacity for qualification, doesn't it? ;)</p>
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<p>Are you sure about that? Cause I remember someone on here talking about her son getting a Who's Who Scholarship.</p>