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[quote=Anonymous]I have received some advertisements about a service that helps kids with their college essays.  This included some examples that were nicely written (along with the admissions results, which were impressive).   My kid is a good writer (according to his teachers), but he has led a very uneventful suburban upper-middle class life.  Based on the prompts I have seen, I know he will struggle to come up with something interesting to write about.  I am sure he could benefit from having someone who knows the ropes help him with topic selection, tone, etc.  But the process costs thousands of dollars, and it just seems wrong to go that route when the work is supposed to be the student's own.  Are lots of people doing this these days?  I'd like to think admissions officers can smell the coached essay a mile away, but it appears that this coach's clients are getting into great schools.

As an alternative, does anybody have books to recommend that kids can read to get ideas for what to write about and how to craft the essay?

Thanks.[/quote]

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