<p>I will add this:</p>
<p>Dear schmincke’s mother:</p>
<p>I am a college English professor, a job I have held since 1992. From time to time I receive telephone calls or emails from my students’ parents. When this happens, I cringe. I do this because I know that nothing good will follow. Nothing. My colleagues all feel the same way.</p>
<p>It is not that I don’t appreciate your interest in your child’s success and well-being. I do. I have a daughter in college myself, and I worry about her all the time. I want her to do well, and it is hard for me to stand by and let her do adult things on her own. But I know this is best for her. She may not be 100% independent yet. But she will never become so If I don’t give her the chance to stand on her own two feet.</p>
<p>If schmincke’s growth has not already begun, then it must begin to do so now, during the college application process. Colleges want to know what schmincke is like when she is by herself. They want to know how she will benefit from their programs when she is on her own. They want to know how she will contribute to campus life as she matures into an adult.</p>
<p>The only way colleges can properly get to know and love schmincke is they meet her in a situation where she feels free to speak honestly.</p>
<p>Please give her this chance.</p>