burketheburner
BurketheBurner
burketheburner

This makes me wonder when these college application massaging gigs started. I graduated high school in the mid-90s from a rich, white, suburban school. People took SAT prep classes, but I don’t know anyone who had individual tutors. I remember asking my English teacher to critique my essay. The common application had

Maybe its the piece of me that’s never made that kind of money in my life but I didn’t feel bad for her making all that money and working 15 hours a week.

It’s really a bit awful of the author to take the parents’ money, for the perfectly reasonable job of helping with their children’s essays, and then basically shit all over them and say that she “helped them cheat” while implying that they aren’t suitable for college.