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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s depressing. 
All my kids friends have coaches doing their essays and apps for them right now while DS is hard at work writing his “why Michigan” essay. He’s complaining bc many are using the same private counselor who does the entire app/essays for the all of his kids…

Given that reality, I’d say, hell yay. 
Make shit up.
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I’d be interested to hear a report back after admissions decisions are in. I suspect AOs are on to some of this, especially if it’s one counselor for many kids from the same school. [/quote]

And yet, there are several posts/articles about how AOs don't have more than a few minutes to read through each application package!  Which is it?  Are these AOs some super geniuses that work 24 hours a day to thoroughly read through 75,000+ applications or are they average/below average grunts whose job it is to identify just a few gems by quickly parsing through thousands of applications?  More than likely it's the latter and more than likely they are paid $20 bucks an hour to do it and most couldn't care less about your child's 'poignant' and 'rivetting' essay, knowing fully well that someone else wrote it or had inputs into it.[/quote]

Both can be true—AOs can quickly scan each application AND see them in such volume that they can detect patterns/indicators that seem off.

But I also think the “AOs only spend a few minutes on each application” is wrong, at least at highly selective schools. [b]My understanding is that there are multiple rounds of review, then candidates for admission are brought to committee.[/b][/quote]

Sure, but they are not comparing essays across candidates and going "wow! these seem similar.  Must have been written by the same coach.  Let's not admit these kids", like the origial pp suggested.  That would be a sort of 'guilty until prove innocent' approach with no opportunity for the kids to prove their innocence.

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