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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We visiting several colleges (top tier) last spring and sat in the information sessions.  When it came to essays, multiple admissions officers made it clear ...."we want the student to write about somthing that allows us to see what type of person the student really is....".......in other words, did some event make the student a better person?  Did he/she learn something that will make them a better conributor to the college as a whole.......I would really focus on this part...how can the student make a real contribution to the school on an overall basis....[/quote]

PP here with both DD's in college.  Just wondering where your DC is in the process.

Because although the admissions officers made it clear, both of my DD's would have had a hard time sitting down and writing a meaningful essay with those goals in mind. I suppose that is "market standard" advice but the devil is in sitting down and writing it. Honestly, a HS senior would have a hard time writing about where she thinks she would fit in on a campus that she has not even set foot on yet.  I guess the student could write about how they contributed in HS and try to carry that forward in the essay.  But even that is hard.

That's why we did not want our kids writing to the market standard (i.e., something that would sell).  We wanted them to write about something that was meanninful to them, that they had strong personal emotions about and that was easy to write.  [/quote]

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