Reply to What's worse -- no "optional" essay or a bad "optional" essay?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "What's worse -- no "optional" essay or a bad "optional" essay?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of a first year college student here.

Last year at this time, my kid was so burned out; by the time she was on her last college application, her essay was pretty weak.  She also thought it was good, but IMO she had missed the point of the question.

We went round and round but she was "done," psychologically.  It was a safety school for her, but due to the uncertainty of how covid was affecting admissions, I was really nervous.

I ended up negotiating with her to allow me to edit it. And I sent it in.

I'm sick of sanctimonious parents going on about how our kids should do it all themselves, as if this is some life lesson.  Maybe their kid is amazing, and/or maybe their kid is applying to ONE college (like, CA students applying only to the UC system).

But IMO the "usual" college application process is in a nuclear-arms-race and our kids are caught in the middle.  It's complete BS to think that all kids can do this *well* all on their own while dealing with a full courseload.  The lesson should not be "do it all yourselves, even though the "game" is BS."  The lesson should be, "do your best and find help if you need it"[/quote]

So… cheating other, potentially more academically prepared kids, out of a spot because you perceive admissions to be a “nuclear arms race” is OK in your book?  Why not just cut out the middle man and bribe the admissions committee?[/quote]

+100
I sincerely hope adcoms can tell when a parent has taken over an essay.  I can't even believe some of these posts.[/quote]
Top PP here.  What about "edit" = "taken over"?  What about "edit" = "cheating"?  What about "edit" = one step short of bribing the admissions committee

I think you guys should write essays--you certainly have the dramatic flair[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics