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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Every poster on this thread is too involved and invested in their kid’s college applications. I’m just the only one being honest.[/quote]

DP. Nope, you are wrong.  Most of us didn’t “basically” write our kids’ essays.  You are a cheater doing gymnastics to rationalize it, like cheaters do.  Do you cheat on your spouse, too? No way your character defect is limited to college applications.[/quote]

I am not doing any “gymnastics” at all. I am being brutally and 100% honest: I heavily edited an essay that my kid wrote after choosing her own topic with no help from me. And I have no quibbles or guilty feelings about it.  Another poster was horrified at the idea I did that, suggesting that she only “pointed out things for her applicant to fix.“ What the hell is the difference? The other kid would not have known there was anything to fix if the mother hadn’t pointed it out. What’s the difference between saying “fix this“ and just fixing it yourself?

You’re all splitting hairs and trying to paint yourselves as morally superior but you ain’t.  I didn’t send my kid to private school, I didn’t pay for SAT preps, I didn’t pick their classes and I didn’t hide no damned consultants or fill out their applications. I edited their unimportant essays to cut them a break. I was less involved in their applications than the vast majority of you.  [/quote]

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