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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell her you will not pay for the application fee until she fixes it. She can fix it or find a way to pay for it herself.[/quote]

Fix it according to whom???

From an ethical standpoint, the essay should be only the child’s work. Forcing a kid to take someone else’s edits or not apply is absurd and wrong.[/quote]

I didn’t say force her I just wouldn’t pay for the application. Having someone proofread an essay is not unethical, many college professors will proofread essays during office hours if asked. The fact that she’s being completely stubborn and unwilling to receive feedback is why I wouldn’t pay for it. If she agreed to meet with a teacher or librarian that could make suggestions I’d be ok with that whether she takes the suggestions and applies them or not. Allowing a child to completely disregard the draft writing process for an essay when they’re applying to college just sets them up to think this will be ok in college as well. The point is to teach the lesson and help expand essay writing abilities and learn to accept feedback as part of the process, not to force changes.[/quote]

It’s her essay. It’s her writing. The college is judging her.

And no, good professors don’t proofread essays. They might point out several examples of errors or poor stylistic choices and then tell the student to carefully read their paper and find similar errors and fix them. They do NOT proofread. Please do not teach your kid that she should ask her college professors to proofread her essay in office hours.

Signed, a writing professor [/quote]

The good ones will. If they don’t most campuses also have writing centers.[/quote]

Writing centers, yes.  Asking your lit prof to proofread your essay?  No, wtf.

OP, are you going to control every aspect of her application?  Decide now what control you need and set boundaries with her about what you’re going to insist on if you’re going to pay her app fees.  I let my parents/sister proofread my essays… but then ignored some of their feedback.  I’m sure my parents felt as you did; glad they didn’t make a huge fuss about it.  I got in almost everywhere I applied, imperfect essays notwithstanding.[/quote]

My DC definitely got feedback about essays before submission from professors.  It was very beneficial and DC made significant progress with writing quality because of it. Wtf is wrong with getting instruction from professional educators like professors?[/quote]

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