<human>: So you know some of those letters you get from those "pre-college programs" that "offer a wonderful experience" blah blah blah and add some bonafide colleges to visit or study in right?

So I got a couple of those in high school. 'course I looked them up to see what they're about, and sure enough, I found they're so-so: my family wasn't exactly the richest on the block, and the program costed a couple of thousand bucks. And after reading about a number of experiences about this one program, call it X Leaders Con, I figured "eh, it's probably a waste of both time and money."

So the next week a couple of college applicants and I are sitting at the table, chatting about college applications, resumes, how useful *are* these programs, and in the midst of that someone brings out "X Leaders Con." So I think "oh that summer program that's a waste of time and money" and I think that I've thought that to myself, and said something somewhat nicer from my mouth.

Well, no. Five seconds later, there's three out of the five people staring at me like I hacked the CommonApp site right before they hit 'Submit'.

And then it hits me. "Shit, I didn't *think* that." Turns out the three actually paid for it and were going to do the program. Needless to say, neither of them really spoke to me after that.

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: read something bad about a program, thought I kept it to myself but actually said it out loud, silence (and a person) later told me that three of them actually enrolled in said program.