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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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).

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. [/quote]

PP here.  My older kid (who graduated two years ago) didn't have anyone but her FCPS English teacher look at her essay. I never saw it. It wasn't too late. It was fine and she was accepted everywhere she applied.  The college application process doesn't have to be high stress. Younger DC is applying to schools that are either safeties or low matches and I suspect that his essay will also be fine for his purposes.

I may show him some published sample essays so he understands what makes a "good" essay.   His main problem will probably be taking the prompts too literally and the samples should help with that.[/quote]

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