In case you missed it in the Sunday papers, Garry Trudeau takes a look at college admissions essays and who is writing them.
“It was an epifany. (Note: check spelling)” See the full strip here.
Not that that really happens. Right?
If your high school student needs help, rather than sitting at the keyboard, you might point them to a couple of key resources:
- Essay Hell — One of the few sites that our daughter, known here as Mod Squad Julie, dove into more deeply than I did, and then asked, “Why didn’t you tell me about this last summer?”
- College Admission — That link will send you to a series of posts on writing essays, including how to respond to common prompts.
- This post, from last summer when Julie was in the thick of it, provides a few more: How to write college essays.
Good luck (to the students) with the essays.
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