Hi,
My S21 was in COSMOS @ UCI this past Summer. But he is struggling with how he will write about it on applications next year. He and I spoke to an Admissions officer for UCSB at a big college fair in October and the AO acted like we shouldn’t expect it to help his application at all. “COSMOS is for the experience” he said a few times during the conversation. I’m also concerned because we were a full pay family ($4k) and so putting the program on a college app may open us up to being considered “privileged” and not what universities are most interested in recruiting.
Maybe my S should have worked at Mac D over the Summer instead?
My S21 was in COSMOS @ UCI this past Summer. But he is struggling with how he will write about it on applications next year. He and I spoke to an Admissions officer for UCSB at a big college fair in October and the AO acted like we shouldn’t expect it to help his application at all. “COSMOS is for the experience” he said a few times during the conversation. I’m also concerned because we were a full pay family ($4k) and so putting the program on a college app may open us up to being considered “privileged” and not what universities are most interested in recruiting.
Maybe my S should have worked at Mac D over the Summer instead?