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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is playing a fall sport, a club sport, is in 3 ap classes and volunteers on weekends, and is applying to a couple special programs with unique requirements in addition to the reach/target/ safety thing. [b]She started the essays, but I’m finishing them for her to proofread. [/b]I’m handling the common app profile, fafsa, css, college board, and everything else that goes along with this process. The whole thing is very bureaucratic and it’s unrealistic to ask a hs senior to know how to navigate it.[/quote]

Super lame. [/quote]

Agreed. You’re finishing the essays? And doing the Common App? What the…[/quote]

Are you new to this world?
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DP. Nope, neither of us are. Not ok at all to write their essays for them. If your kids can’t do that part, they’re either not cut out for the schools they’re applying to or they’re not cut out for the current schedule they have.[/quote]

Or applying to colleges is a ridiculous process that is darn near a full time job.[/quote]

But you all are making it worse by doing the work for them! The process could be much more reasonable if we allowed kids to demonstrate what a realistic product from a busy 17 year old looks like.

And if it’s really like full time job, there are too many schools on your kid’s list. It’s ok for them to learn how to navigate hard deadlines. To stay up super late a few nights, to get up earlier on weekends, to learn why coffee was invented. And yes, they might still get rejected after doing that. And that’s ok, too! Life lessons, people. Let your kid learn them.[/quote]

This is a really good point an I agree with you. But who wants their kid to be the ones to teach the colleges a lesson? I don’t have confidence they’ll get the message. [/quote]

It’s a risk either way. I’m avoiding a heavy hand in my kid’s applications because I don’t want to be the one responsible for steering her wrong. Admissions officers know what they’re looking for, I don’t. [/quote]

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