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He's working on a school app that's not the Common App, and the college requires 4 statements. All his ideas would work for 3 out of 4 essays, but then he comes up short for the personal statement, because he's used his best stories for the others. What kind of sadistic person demands 4 essays anyway? How much material can he re-use, if the perspective and life lesson is different? How to make it different enough?

Blaargh. [b]There is nothing worse than asking a 17 year old to psychoanalyze and philosophize over his life experience. [/b]

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Agree. Most every single example of "great essay" I've read makes my skin crawl. They are so corny and self absorbed. My son will have to write exactly 0 things like this in college, yet that is the game admission counselors want to play, so you play it. Agree with the suggestion to check out some of the College Essay Guy stuff. Website, book, whatever. Also, this is where an experienced essay tutor can be helpful. DS says he'll write something super cringe, and then his tutor reads it and says "Yes, more like this!" 
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And then when your have a very humble child who won’t highlight any true accomplishments because he was raised to be humble and not brag. It’s like pulling teeth.[/quote]

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