Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
College and University Discussion
Reply to "Family mantra as a college essay topic- still viable or passe?"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a family mantra for our household that I thought would be great essay material for DD’s application but DD was advised by her high school college counselor that it’s not captivating enough. Really? If your kid got into college already what were they told?[/quote] Any topic can be captivating. However I wonder if the combination of it being the family mantra that presumably the parents create, that YOU thought would be a good essay means that your kid describing it isn’t captivating as a story about them instead of a story about your parenting. [/quote] Yes, my question here is whose idea was it to write the essay on the family mantra? Yours or your kid’s? I do think any topic can authentically communicate who a kid is, but it really should originate with the kid and they should be inspired to write about it. I am not sure we have enough info about the dynamics here.[/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
