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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private school parent here. 
Has anyone asked a privately hired college counselor to help write these?

If the high school is lifting the text verbatim, I probably need to be drafting it with that in mind?[/quote]

Yes. Our private counselor suggested we look at it from the top down: what do we want colleges to know about this student that is not communicated elsewhere in the application?

For example: my son did a semester-long independent study project. It shows up on this transcript with a grade of "H" and a confusing title. It did not appear on the Common App activities list or under Honors. We asked the counselor to describe it in detail and gave her the bullet points: how many weeks it took, how long the paper he wrote was, the fact that one of his teachers incorporated it into a class lecture, and (most important) what he learned from the experience. My son had invited her to his final presentation for the project, so that was helpful too.

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