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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,
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simple: let the parent take charge of the entire application. you can bet that'll happen here.
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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.
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is that failure you speak of something that students are incapable of? on the contrary, a wide-eyed 12 year-old neophyte to the English language may tend to overuse cliched phrases and expressions and use big and bombastic words in the most awkward fashions.
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A considerably mature applicant will write an essay with voice.
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a considerably mature person could do the same - say, a parent?
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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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why do you regularly suppose that parents are incapable of that? it's equally valid to say that smart parents know how to pretend to be a primary school student. or they could hire people who know.
and what if you were wrong? what if you mistook a genuine voice for an artificial, coached one? you're asking for a perfect admission process that probably requires private investigators, polygraph tests, psychic mind-reading and 24-hour surveillance throughout the essay-writing process to achieve perfect candidate selection. but everything can be coached. you just have to face it.