Launch School has capstone students pass off their capstone project as employed work experience?

I've studied Launch School grads and Codesmith grads side by side here because both do these group projects called "capstone projects" (Launch School) or "OSP" (Codesmith) that are open source, have websites, blog posts, and all kinds of scaffolding around them to brand them as super legit projects. I did this write up last year of [Codesmith](https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/18cpq98/analysis_of_52_most_recent_codesmith_offers/) I haven't done one for Launch School because they are much smaller and it's easier to find students yourself and look it up. There are three completely separate issues here: 1. Representation of project as Software Engineer job. Codesmith students often list the project as "Software Engineer". They occasionally add "Open Source" to the title or description and occasionally add "Developed under OSLabs" in the description - both of which don't mean this wasn't paid work experience. They also put this SEPARATE from their 3 other Codesmith personal projects which are all bucketed under one experience item : "Open Source Projects" and the contrasting placement makes the OSP look like a job. Codesmith students often do not list Codesmith on their LinkedIns. Launch School students usually list the project under experience as "Co-Creator | Software Developer" as the title of their project and the projects often to not say they are open source or or companies. Launch School students often list Launch School as "education" on their LinkedIn. 2. Representation of the company affiliated with the experience. Both are similar here, Codesmith and Launch School advise to have company pages for your project, listing them as open source tools. The major difference is Codesmith has numerous projects that get iterated on by future cohorts, so some of these "companies" have over "200 employees" listed which makes them seem more like real companies. 3. Representation of time frame. Both are somewhat similar here. People tend to put the start date of the BOOTCAMP for this experience, and not the dates of the projects. In Launch School's case, the program is called "Capstone" it's all about THE CAPSTONE, so I could see this being more justified. In Codesmith's case the OSP is a 4 week project but is listed as the entire time of Codesmith - WHICH OVERLAPS WITH THE OTHER BUCKETS OF CODESMITH PROJECTS AND DOUBLE OR TRIPLE COUNTS THE TIME. Both tend to list "to present" and encourage students to keep working on their projects after graduating.