I was surprised that my son didn’t say nevermind to a few of the prompts. Write a letter to your future roommate? That seemed difficult to me, when you know you’re really writing for admissions, yet you have to seem like you’re writing to a roommate without seeming phony by throwing in what you think admissions wants to read. Yikes. Also, that prompt for University of Chicago that’s completely in jibber jabber but asks the student to respond in regular English sentences had me flummoxed. Son tackled everything serenely though, and he seemed to enjoy the various challenges. I write for a living, but I’m glad my college essay days are far behind me.