A parent-written essay would not be an "extremely outstanding" essay. On the contrary, it would be ill-fitting with the style of the rest of the application and be quite poor. Even if it was written in the most lucid prose, the voice wouldn't match that of the student in the rest of the application, or even if the voice were consistent, a parent will inevitably fail to express (or will express them cheesily) the passion and drive in the essays that a real applicant would exhibit.
A considerably mature applicant will write an essay with voice.
Parents cannot write essays for their children with any sort of real voice. The kind of real voice where the applicant not only employs a variety of rhetorical techniques, but does so to the heart of the adcoms, regularly switching between maturity and intimacy ("Well it all began in primary three...") Using parent-written essays is sort of like trying to feed essays through a translator. You can tell right away.
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and are you actually serious about trying to find "intellectual passion" in a 12 year-old?
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That is when it tends to be developed, isn't it?
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as long as you've stepped into school, read textbooks and novels on your own, you HAVE been coached, knowingly or not, by some segment of society.
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Because not being coached means that, when you step out, you will actually make some sort of intellectual contribution to society as you grow up, rather than parroting what society has told you.