It’s so obvious when people jump on tragedies just to boost their resumes

I live in Pasadena, which has been devastated by the recent Eaton Fire. A girl I know who’s super-obsessed with college, and who also isn’t from the directly-affected area, has been posting nonstop about a “groundbreaking nonprofit” she’s starting to “unite the communities affected by the fires," but without saying anything specific about what she'll do.

Obviously helping people recover from this tragedy is a good goal, but if she actually cared about helping people, she’d join one of the dozens of existing organizations in this area with deep support networks, dozens of adults involved, and abilities to actually take significant action, instead of focusing on leading her “nonprofit” which seems to just consist of an Instagram page.

Anyway, let this be a warning to you all that it's obvious when you're helping insincerely, and it makes you come across like an asshole, both to the people you're ostensibly trying to help and to college admissions officers. If you look inside yourself and you're doing "charity" for the purposes of helping your application, as opposed to legitimately wanting to help people, there's no benefit to your application or to anyone else's life.