Who should read my common app essay?

Marshmellah
Sun, 27 Oct 2019 20:27:10 +0000

Hi, so I have a bit of a dilemma here. So, after writing my essay, I want to review my essay with someone to make sure that it is as best as possible. My essay isn’t sensitive in a way that it talks about abuse or mental health, but it concerns a period of my life where I went through multiple difficult events all at once (mainly financially and health-related). Both my junior and current senior year English teachers offered to read my essay. However, I don’t feel too comfortable having them read my essay because of the subject, but it’s a situation where I wouldn’t be uncomfortable if the admissions offices read it (if that makes sense). However, my guidance counselor is someone I trust who I’ve been going to ever since I was a freshman because I dealt with multiple personal problems that she helped me with and I wouldn’t mind her reading my essay. My main question here is, should I have my GC review my essay with me or should I just let one of the English teachers read it because I’m reading too much into the situation?