that looming essay

mmaah
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:54:57 +0000

I think you are lucky she will consider working on it in the summer…neither of mine wanted to approach that hurdle early. But in general, I believe that it is valuable, even if asked for topic help, to avoid giving direction beyond a brief list of wildly divergent possibilities. I believe admission readers are looking/longing for an authentic voice of the kid and what she comes to on her own is likely to be most useful. I’d suggest she write one or more on whatever comes to mind and that you’d like to be useful in being a final proofreader rather than the assignment editor…(besides, if you can get her to write more than one–or even one–you’ll learn some interesting things…)