Graded Writing Sample Question

Prep School Admissions
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Hi,

I need to submit a graded writing sample for a few of the schools I am applying to, and I was wondering what AO’s expect of this sample. So far, this year I have received perfect scores on all writing projects assigned to me, and have received no comments from teachers other than “Good Work!” and such. I was wondering if AO’s prefer the graded writing sample to have constructive comments and/or feedback on what I did well, since I might have ask a teacher for extra comments (though when I tried, my teacher said he couldn’t give me any comments because my essay was already good). I was also wondering how much it matters for the sample to be from English class, because so far I’ve only had substantial writing in history.
Thanks :slight_smile:

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My daughter had the same situation. Didn’t seem to matter in the end. She was successful in getting into schools.

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It doesn’t really matter. It’s used by the AO to get a sense of your academic writing, what kind of feedback your teachers give, grading standards, etc. It just helps put your application into context. Don’t sweat this!

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