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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kindness, really? Maybe I'm being cynical here, but please explain to me how a 17 year old teen demonstrates their kindness in a college app without it sounding disingenuous? And now that this is "a thing," every application will have kids trying to convince AOs how kind they are. It's ridiculous.[/quote] Perhaps, kindness isn't exactly the right word. I see it more as caring about others, things like helping kids with homework, being supportive of other kids dealing with personal emotional difficulties, standing up for other kids being bullied and subjected to various kinds of harassment (sometimes as seemingly little as not letting friends kick another kid out of a group), providing rides for classmates who can't otherwise get to games, practices, concerts. Concrete, real world things that don't need to be exaggerated or fictionally created. My son had a little of this in the background of his essays and LORs, and I think it helped. [/quote]
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