yes this is seriously disturbing.
i just can't help but think that kids that do their own apps have the odds stacked against them. reading this board is seriously discouraging because so many kids have their parents helping them
MASSIVELY on their apps, calling DODMERB (yeah, i'm watching that forum too and seeing parents admit to calling DODMERB
), and other stuff.
how do you compete against parents who will write their essays, and position them for admission?
i really think that there should be an honor code for the admission process. you do it oyurself or you go somewhere else
why should a kid who doesn't care enough to do his or her own app, write their own essays, go to their own interviews, prep for their own interviews, follow up on their own documents - why should such a kid get a better shot because their parent does everything for them with 20 more years of experience? instead of us kids who have to do most of it ourselves and motivate ourselves getting an advantage, instead the kids who have essays written by parents with advanced degrees get to have more "polished packages". that just sucks.
yeah, i know why they do it. they want their kids to have the best shot. they will go out of their way to do every possible thing that gives their kids an advantage in the process. but that just makes it so much harder for the rest of us!
i think those of us who are really kids should form our own subforum here- "USNA - Real Kids Only" unfortunately, it will be a itsy bitsy tiny little forum
i am not pointing a finger at all you parents- just expressing my frustration at this example, since i KNOW it is probably more common than not! the BGOs all say that one of their jobs is to try to figure out if it's the parents idea or the kid's idea to go to the USNA. why? because it must happen all the time that kids are pushed into it. and it is natural to think that when a kid is pushed into it, that their package is probably not their own work. am i wrong?
ok, the tomcat has nothing to do with what i said, i just wanted to use it!