Originally Posted by AzTheta (Post 2159958)

AzTheta thinks AXOrushadvisor and Titchou are spot on. AzTheta likes referring to AzTheta in the third person. But it is a lot more tedious to type out than simply using "I". So AzTheta is reconsidering this affectation.

Originally Posted by AzTheta (Post 2159958)

AzTheta thinks AXOrushadvisor and Titchou are spot on. AzTheta likes referring to AzTheta in the third person. But it is a lot more tedious to type out than simply using "I". So AzTheta is reconsidering this affectation.

Originally Posted by Titchou (Post 2159961)

Please don't - I rather like it.

Originally Posted by Titchou (Post 2118193)

Or ever admit it if she did!

Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 2159972)

This is what I don't get. I would personally be MORTIFIED to admit (or rather, allow my mother to admit) that I used such a service to my friends, let alone the New York freakin' Times.

I mean isn't part of the whole point of Southern or preppy or what-have-you privilege the fact that you don't talk about it?

Originally Posted by AzTheta (Post 2159958)

AzTheta thinks AXOrushadvisor and Titchou are spot on. AzTheta likes referring to AzTheta in the third person. But it is a lot more tedious to type out than simply using "I". So AzTheta is reconsidering this affectation.

Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 2159972)

This is what I don't get. I would personally be MORTIFIED to admit (or rather, allow my mother to admit) that I used such a service to my friends, let alone the New York freakin' Times.

I mean isn't part of the whole point of Southern or preppy or what-have-you privilege the fact that you don't talk about it?

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle (Post 2160045)

The first rule of recruitment preparation club:
You don't talk about recruitment preparation club.

Originally Posted by Greek_or_Geek? (Post 2159976)

I'm pretty certain she does that to improve her search engine rankings. The algorithms are partially based on the number of times you are mentioned on third party sites. She's been a big spammer in the past on my organization's Facebook page as well as the NPC pages and I've even seen her show up on local alumnae group pages too. I'm not sure what she has been doing lately since I blocked her a long time ago for her tiresomeness.

Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 2159972)

I mean isn't part of the whole point of Southern or preppy or what-have-you privilege the fact that you don't talk about it?

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle (Post 2160045)

The first rule of recruitment preparation club:
You don't talk about recruitment preparation club.

Originally Posted by Munchkin03 (Post 2160073)

The same people who are paying for these consultants (at least in the Northeast and the Atlanta suburbs, some of which are made up predominantly of people from the Northeast) are the same people who probably paid for their kids to have college admissions consultants.

There's a class of Americans who are used to farming out everything; if this wasn't your experience or your world, like it is for most of us, this is just one more of those things.

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel (Post 2160069)

Google/Twitter leads me to believe she is in an MBA program at Carnegie Mellon.

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle (Post 2160045)

The first rule of recruitment preparation club:
You don't talk about recruitment preparation club.

Originally Posted by shirley1929 (Post 2159957)

What Tichou said. I'm not condoning it at all, but think about how appalled people were 10+ years ago when families started paying College Admissions Counselors for their assistance. Now, it's pretty commonplace for some groups of people. Can you find all that information online? Sure, but if I have the $$ to have someone else deal with it (and deal with keeping my child on a timeline) then why not?

Today it's the Rush Counselor - same song, different verse. Girls won't listen to their mother's advice, but they might listen to someone else. If mama has the $$, then she can put that task on someone else...