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<p>Hi, everyone,</p>

<p>My son is going to college next year. Same as many of you here, he is worrying about his essays. </p>

<p>After reading some books of how-tos, and some posts here, I can’t help wondering the following questions:</p>

<li><p>Why do colleges still need essays (stupid question, I know)? In this information age that a person can be presented himself/herself as a dog on the internet (or vice versa), do the colleges really think that they can get something from an essay of 500 words? </p></li>
<li><p>How much does the essay truly represent the applicant? After writing the essay, it will be reviewed/edited/polished/proofread by parents, teachers, friends, counselors, and pals on the internet (some of you). What percentage does the finial version of the essay, sent to the college, contain the original content of the original version? Isn’t this kind of cheating? </p></li>
<li><p>How can the colleges tell that an essay they are reading is from the applicant him/herself, not from the hands of other people?</p></li>
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<p>youve got the wrong place to look for answers, i think. why dont you email some admission offices for inquiry? im sure it is no harder to find the email link for harvard admissions than to find collegeconfidential on the internet.</p>

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<p>A fair number of colleges compare the SAT-Writing essay (or at least the score) to the admissions essay(s); I don't think that most adcoms have any illusion about how much insight into the quality of a student's writing the admissions essay gives. What a good essay can reveal is a unique interest or passion, the writer's personality, or the way the applicant's mind works. That's harder to fake.</p>