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Because your own daughter should be perfectly capable of doing it herself.
Why should she need you to do it for you. I don’t have a problem with the GC sending home a form or asking kids to submit a resume. I am fine with that. In developing that resume or form, I also think it’s fine for parent’s to brainstorm with their kids as to what to include. However, I don’t understand the requirement that it come from the PARENT.
At my kids’ high school, this was all done in their English class. The English teacher spent some class time talking to kids about what to include - in and out of school experiences. After that it’s the students responsiblity to make his/her own accomplishments known. I would think any student bright enough to apply to HYPS (etc) should be able to handle this on his/her own volition.</p>
<p>sylvan - my comment was purely facetious. It wasn’t off hand or ill thought out. If anything, a tad bit snarky; I admit. Personally, I don’t think it is necessary at all to drag a high school student all over Europe to look at architecture. There is plenty of lovely architecture here in the US that is worthy of admiration. It was an aside in recounting the lovely architecture student I know who gained admittance into a very selective program without the luxury of critiquing Rome.</p>