Things have moved quickly now. S has completed 4 different school essays now and the common app essay. What we found is once you get three or four different schools completed the rest can be re-used. You just need to tailor it to the school.
Please use the advice on this thread. There are some great ideas that worked.
What worked for us was:
- Staying positive
- Reduce the stress, I re-enforced it’s not the end of the world if he didn’t get into a Top 20 school
- Have a clear deadline, we targeted to complete the ED schools (we need to still pick the one we submit) by 10/15 and the others by early Nov
- Help with brainstorming
Hang in there everyone