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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will probably help my rising senior brainstorm ideas.  I'm hoping his English teacher assigns the essay early in the school year and I would prefer that he get feedback that way. (He is not applying to top schools).[/quote]

No matter when the teachers assign it, it will be too late.  My kid was done by the time these actually got assigned.

He submitted an early draft (since he had to do something) and got some crappy feedback (by crappy I mean the feedback was not high quality and didn't give him what he would need to improve - it was not good editing work on her part).  There were no further rounds in class.  I would not count on this.

All good writing is edited.  If you don't want to be the person to do this for your kid, make sure your kid gets input from somewhere.

The Harvard/Yale story is nice, but the statement: &quot;I stepped back and my kid was AMAZING!&quot; =&gt; &quot;You step back and your kid will be AMAZING too&quot; is not true.

What is true is the following &quot;I stepped back and my kid was AMAZING!!!! and I NEED TO TELL YOU!!!!&quot;  - that one is true.[/quote]

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