My youngest is working on the finishing touches of her college applications that are due TODAY. She is different from her two older brothers - she's been doing everything herself. I know she's been working on her essay for weeks. After school, she would go talk to one or more teachers. Her friends came over to our house to work on them together. One teacher, the mother of a friend, even invited kids over to her house for dinners and writing sessions. The one thing she wouldn't do was show ME her work. Whatever, that was fine with me.
I gave her an excellent booklet on writing essays (I think a CCer recommended it). I explained that the essay needs to be more about her RESPONSE to situations rather than the situations themselves (which included her brother's schizophrenia, her cousin's suicide, and her own anxiety).
So what happens? YESTERDAY she tells me that a teacher thought her essay was too much about her circumstances. So now she's written a second essay and given me both of them to look at. Sigh. It's such late notice that it will be hard to give her much help. I keep telling myself that it's HER job, but my helicopter blades are spinning. Sigh.
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