Is senior homecoming queen an appropriate accomplishment for colleges to be aware of after transcipts and letters have already gone out? I don’t think so, but I have a parent sending a picture of her daughter with a tiara waving to the crowd in the town thanksgiving day parade to every school she’s applying to.
My response: “Well some colleges appreciate humor, some don’t”. I was pretty blunt about how popularity and good looks mean little in the college admissions game, although I can see how important it must be for her daughter in high school. However, they were insistent it spoke ‘volumes’. I ended the conversation by telling them they can send whatever they want to colleges but nothing else is coming from this office except academic accomplishments/hardships, worthwhile extracurricular activities, and valuable personality traits.

They can send the tiara picture, but it’s not coming from my desk.