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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In all honesty, if your kid isn’t willing to write a 250-500 word supplemental essay, they are going to hate any elite or private university. My kids are both at small top 20s and have written their asses off. My freshman has already written four 5-7 page papers for two of her classes, and several smaller writing assignments. Her other two classes are comp sci and calculus, so luckily no paper writing in those. My senior has written papers for most of her classes as an Econ major outside of math and programming classes, and will spend her last semester writing a thesis. 
Large public universities with large lecture classes rarely require writing unless the student is in a writing based major. The professors just can’t read and grade hundreds of papers. Large universities love multiple choice scantron tests.  [/quote]

I agree with the above.  Yale and Harvard have a lot of extra essays. My kid was griping- especially because the odds of getting in are so low. But if your kid is unwilling to write the extra essays they probably don't belong at a top 10 school.[/quote]

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