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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who says they put a lot of weight on it?

[b]Why not also toss out GPA (maybe they had a tutor) or SAT/ACT scores because they may have prepped?[/b]

Admissions departments aren't grading them the way a teacher would, they are looking to see what the student can reveal about him or herself or how they think.

If your essay was slapped together quickly, with or without help, it will show.

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The difference is basically no one's kid is getting tutored for every subject through all four years of high school.  And even SAT tutoring can only really raise a score by so much.  But it is entirely possible for someone else to completely write an applicant's essay without a college knowing about it.  And for what it's worth, when my husband was in college, he wrote an essay for his girlfriend who was still in HS, and she got into UVA with it, so I'm not really buying this idea that colleges can really tell that the essays weren't written by the students. [/quote]

Another assuming parent. Know a DC kid that was tutored from middle school in all classes prior to taking them at school. This kid ultimately won  award after award .. national awards in high school. HPY graduate. Very successful business person   You should not make assumptions about what people will do. The whole idea of taking hard classes over the summer at another private so you aced it the next fall
I learned about at my HPU in the 80s. My parent would never have 1 paid for that 2 allowed
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It 3 I had summer jobs. But I met a ton of kids that go to top schools through summer school class previews and tutors to do fine tuning a prepare for test and papers. Those kids perfect transcripts. [/quote]

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