You just have to top that college essay her brother wrote. Prove you are the better one 
@lookingforward colleges actually do have access to applicantās essay. college board says so on their website. itās like they give them access to your college board account. You know how you can view the photocopied version of your own essay, so can colleges. But they rarely do, unless they have reason to suspect that the applicantās essay or supplements are fraudulent.
@tuty143 - you are assuming that the brother is a better writer than you (donāt be so sure about that) and that a 20-something man can sound like a high school girl full of dreams (again donāt be too sure of that).
Focus on yourself. Thereās really very little you can do about the thousands of other applicants out there. This girl is just the one you know - she really doesnāt matter.
@mathmom: They are assessed as a first draft piece of writing. There are so many arguments about the validity of the different components of the SAT, and of the SAT itself, that have been around forever. Because your child, an excellent student in general, found himself at an impasse at this phase of the test makes it ludicrous to you. That I understand.
If they have access to SAT essays so they should have access to everything including tests taken and not reported due to the score choice, correct?
Donāt go rushing off with assumptions on this matter. Think about what you do know about how admissions and adcoms work and what the real chances are that they will go after this. And if you really donāt know much about admissions, then double the advice not to assume. The elites have more than enough candidates to choose from. They arent your hs English or history teacher trying to figure out if your style is consistent, between two disparate documents with entirely different purposes. And too many kids donāt write that great an essay- you have to realize this even from CC examples.
Why would you think a med student could write a particularly good college essay? Forget about it.
@Hunt Iām basing my assumption that he is obviously able to produce a better essay than his sister considering he completed 4 years of undergraduate at a prestigious university. Med students arenāt really focused on writing essays I understand, but he does have better literary skills than a high schooler
Thereās really nothing you can do but write a great essay yourself. Itās likely that some of your other peers had their parents, private counselor or other party write their essays (or edit them so much that they might as well have).
Write your best, get some second opinions and move on.
The essay is to reveal something about the applicant not found in the other parts of the application. Itās a personal statement. Not every student at a āprestigiousā university is a good writer. Most are probably terrible at writing as a different person.
At every college we visited, the presenters emphasized that the essayās there should be about letting the adcom get to know the applicant within the context of the essay. A poorly written essay will say little, an essay written by someone else with a different perspective and life experience would ring false, but a well written essay reflecting the applicants personality is what they want. When S2 was applying, he rejected a lot of our edits simply because the edits didnāt reflect his personality and mannerisms- sometimes it was phrasing, sometimes word selection and he ended up with essays that were both well written and were clearly from a 17 year oldās perspective.
The med student really should have known better, I doubt that it will make much of a difference. Most essays neither hurt nor help the applicant. I definitely would not want to have him as my doctor though.