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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Helping kid finalize top EA app and ED1 app this weekend.

Looking for tips:

Contacts: if school asks for contacts list as many people as you can (students; alumni etc)

Activities: power verbs; quantify impact; reorder; end with an EC that makes them smile or tugs at heart (family responsibilities or something sweet)

Future plans: use “Other” to personalize and wrap description into overall application narrative/theme

Essays: read all essays out loud - if a word sounds too big, it is too big. End personal essay with a one line emotional “hook”.

Additional info: explains anything on transcript that isn’t clear or reinforces academic theme; only add extra awards that are high profile (outside school or local community); link to student material/website  - always short and bulleted ; no essays.

Glimpse video - should say something about you not covered elsewhere in any part of the app.

Overall: read the application to make sure nothing is ever repeated. Make sure there is a clear concise application theme that develops about who the kid is and what the kid values .

Imagine being an admissions officer and reading that. Do you have something to take away about the kid. A few words. If so, that’s how they will describe kid in committee.

What am I missing? 
Any tips?

Love it!!  "Helping" kid finalize top EA app and ED1 app this weekend.

You are the problem that schools have no way of dealing with and other kids cannot compete with.  That application is your work, not the applicant's.  Your kid doesn't deserve acceptance in any school that you applied to on his behalf.  It's called ethics and you, regardless of your excuses, have none.

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Huh? 
There’s no paid private college counselor. No essay “Coach”. Some ppl pay for this. I’m reviewing a final draft pdf of what my kid inputted using the “advice” from this place?
That’s a problem?

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