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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don’t have to do anything right now—save your strength! Over the summer your child should work on his or her common app essay. This is the main essay that almost every college will see. Your child can also work on the activity list, deciding what order to put the activities and making the descriptions fit the character count. You don’t need a consultant, but I hired an essay coach, and I found that out as a way of keeping my child moving on the essay writing over the summer. If the kid completes that essay over the summer he’ll be in pretty good shape.

Colleges don’t release the prompts for supplementary essays until August, but your child can start generating material for likely types of essays they might need to write (ie, usually, there’s one about your “community”.)

I had high expectations for how much we get done over the summer, and my kid didn’t get that much done. But it was OK. He wrote a lot of essays over winter break for RD including an overhaul of the Common App essay and it worked out. [/quote]

no don't write any essays without knowing the prompts! [/quote]

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