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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We did a lot of this except your “be involved”. I occasionally offered schools for consideration but my kid’s list was their own. Likewise I only the read the essay for typos right before it was submitted. Didn’t look at anything else on the app or track deadlines.

I get it that kids differ but this is just another example of “I will tell what worked for my kid because I assume it’s a model for every kid”
which is perhaps the most common, and most annoying parenting shtick there is. [/quote]

This is funny. Of course this is what worked for my kids. I said that upfront. People can take it or leave it.

But I will add that I have seen a lot of my kids' friends and friends' kids get less than stellar results without parent involvement. I know my spouse and I added value to both kids' apps. So that's our experience. We were not over involved. The kids wrote their own essays and we did not over edit. We helped brainstorm topics and did edit but lightly. Corrected grammar and typos but never rewrote or replaced their language with ours. It's important that it be their work and their voices. [/quote]

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