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[quote=Anonymous]I was a copy editor in an earlier job (the disclosure of which pretty much ensures I'll make typos and mistakes in this post). So, I made a point to have my son let me proof his stuff for grammar. His common app essay and the essays he wrote for his top choices were all pretty good. They were reasonably engaging and reflected his personality. The ones he ripped off at the last minute (e.g. for Purdue's Honors College) were not very good at all. But, even with the bad ones, I let them go through pretty much intact. I corrected grammar, and helped with sentence structure in a few places, but left the substance alone. I figured a bad essay written by him would be better received by the reviewers than a good one written by his 50 year old dad. [/quote]
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