Do you think i can use the same parent essay responses from older child's app 5 years ago?
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Anonymous
Any chance the school will check Ravenna?
 
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Anonymous
| Make a few changes just in case. I always find it easier to rewrite something than start from scratch. |
Anonymous
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No
Make changes |
Anonymous
| I would reuse with some changes. |
Anonymous
| Isn't the parent essay largely about the applicant? |
Anonymous
Yeah, I don’t think you want a cookie cutter answer about your kids who can’t possibly be exactly the same. |
Anonymous
| Hahaha OP! You're lucky if your two kids are that similar. |
Anonymous
Not OP, but some kids ask general questions about family values that are not kid dependent. I can see using those over again (but tweaked slightly). |
Anonymous
OP--the school(s) ask a bunch of stuff about our family values, why we're attracted to the school, etc that have been constant from one kid to the next (5 years later) |
Anonymous
| Currently applying for younger child. Even though some of the essays are similar and I was able to reuse similar language, I now actually have experience with the school with the older that I was able to interject more personal anecdotes. So I would say reuse but modify. |
Anonymous
I asked the AD at our private and they said yes, feel free to use the same answers to the parent/ family questions. Obviously update the kid specific stuff, but they were adamant we didn’t need to reinvent the wheel. |
Anonymous
| No but if you can’t face it you could use chatgpt as a first draft! |
Anonymous
| I would think they can pull up prior applications and we know that schools "remember" families that rejected acceptances. I will not use the same essays for my kids' HS admissions (and we did not for elementary admission to our current school). Of course, my kids are completely different, so there's no way this would work for us even if we wanted to. |
Anonymous
bad idea. a lot of that use the same input data and it can determined you used it using other tools available. unless you're just looking for ideas. But then it wouldn't necessarily match your childs personality and would be boiler plate. |
Anonymous
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No. Do not copy/paste. It conveys disinterest and laziness.
~admissions committee member |