Unfortunately, it's an arms race of cheating. Everyone else was the president of 5 school clubs, volunteered at a soup kitchen and animal shelter for 2 years, tutored disadvantaged kids for 4 hours a day, was a varsity athlete in 3 sports, played the trombone in band, and won 10 academic awards... so everyone has to say that in order to at least seem like an average candidate to college admissions.

I dropped out and got my GED. I don't think there's one thing in my K-12 transcripts that would look good.

I was not exactly a valedictorian-level student.

Done a bunch of stuff, since then, but it's not right to throw onto LinkedIn. It's the kind of stuff we don't take credit for.

They need to spend more time on the "not getting caught" chapter, I guess.