Community guidelines

What belongs here

An opportunity belongs on Pathlumi if it is:

• Genuinely open to high-school students
• Run by a real, identifiable organization
• Something a student applies to, signs up for, or takes part in
• Described accurately, including cost and deadline

That is a broad tent on purpose. A Saturday shift packing meals at a community centre is as welcome as a national research programme. Small and local is not lesser here.

What a good listing looks like

• A specific title.“Weekend Meal Packing Volunteer Team” beats “Volunteer With Us”.
• A summary that says what a student will actually do. Not what your organization believes in — what happens on the day.
• Honest eligibility.If it is really for juniors and seniors, say so. Listing grades 9–12 to widen your audience wastes everyone's time, ninth-graders' most of all.
• A real deadline, or the rolling flag if there genuinely is not one.
• The true cost, including anything students pay separately. If financial aid exists, say how to ask for it.
• A working application link that goes to the actual application, not your homepage.

What gets rejected

• Anything not genuinely open to high-school students
• Listings that ask students for sensitive information through Pathlumi
• Advertisements for products, services, tutoring packages or paid consulting
• Opportunities requiring payment to an individual rather than an organization
• Vague listings with no dates, no location and no description of what happens
• Anything designed to collect student contact details for later marketing
• Listings from organizations we cannot verify exist
• Anything discriminatory, unsafe, or inappropriate for a teenage audience

Rejections come with a written reason, and you can fix and resubmit.

Writing an Application Preview

This is the part students value most, and the part most likely to be filled in carelessly. Some guidance:

• Write the steps in the order they happen,from the student's side of the screen. “Create an account on our site” is a step. “We review applications” is not.
• Be specific about materials.“Transcript” is better than “academic records”, and “unofficial transcript is fine” is better still.
• Publish essay prompts if you can. Students plan their time around them, and it costs you nothing.
• Estimate the time honestly. If it takes four hours, say four hours. A student who budgets one hour and needs four is the student who gives up halfway.
• Say when decisions come out,even approximately. “About six weeks after the deadline” is genuinely useful.

Approval and verification

Approved means a moderator has reviewed your organization and it can post. Listings still go through review individually.

Verifiedis a further step: we have confirmed the organization's identity and that a genuine representative controls the account. Verified organizations carry a badge, and verified listings mean we have checked the details themselves against the official source and recorded the date.

Substantively editing a published listing clears its verified badge automatically and sends it back for re-checking. That is not a punishment — it is how the badge keeps meaning something.

For students

• Report anything that looks wrong. Broken links and passed deadlines are worth reporting too, not only unsafe listings.
• Keep notes to yourself. Notes on a saved opportunity are private and stay that way, so write what is actually useful to you.
• Do not share your account. Your saved list and preferences are yours.

Enforcement

Most problems end with a rejection and a note about what to fix. Repeated inaccuracy, or anything that puts students at risk, ends with the organization being removed and its listings archived.

Every moderation decision is recorded in an audit log with who made it, when, and why.

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