humm how about the US Marines
The $300-per-hour ‘summer planner’ for teens
By Tara Palmeri
June 23, 2014 | 2:46am
Deep-pocketed parents are shelling out big bucks to make sure their kids are able to navigate one of life’s biggest hurdles — summer.
For about $300 an hour, experts will assist teens in managing their fun in the sun, all in an effort to help them craft that killer “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” essay and land a spot at a top college.
“In terms of writing his college essays, it was pretty much a slam-dunk,” said Marla Isackson, 57, of Tenafly, NJ, who hired “professional summer planner” Jill Tipograph to plan two trips for her son Josh, who now attends Yale.
“We made an investment in our child. It was important to us, and it was our priority.”
Josh spent two summers in China and used the experience to write the college essay that got him into the Ivy League school.
“When you apply to college, [they] look at a kid in his or her entirety in terms of interests and grades and standardized tests,” Isackson said. “The kids want to present themselves as a story.
“The fact that China was a part of his story, I think, made his story much more authentic and believable — who is this kid, what are his interests, what makes him tick,” she added.
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Send the kid to China. Got it. Thanks for saving me $300!
Anyway, speaking of High School kids, my bus passed the graduation ceremony last night as the graduates were leaving the field, and they looked fantastic. I like the way they did it here with tuxes and ball gowns, instead of the traditional garb.
It took me back to a similar summer night many years ago. Congratulations to those
kidsyoung adults, and I hope they enjoyed their graduation night as much as I enjoyed mine!Get a life! Where can I collect my $300 for that advice?
Orchestrating “the story” doesn’t seem very authentic to me.