<p>Just curious, particularly about whether anyone got an unexpected reaction from their child.</p>
<p>Yes ,we showed our D our comments .If we thought that there were serious reservations , we probably would not have applied !</p>
<p>I have not yet, but will ask her if she cares to read them before we submit the apps.</p>
<p>Yes, we showed our son the statement. Although BS was his decision, as the first person in our family to even consider it, he has been rattled by the whole process - interviewing, essay writing, testing - and it made it feel good to see in writing that we had the confidence in him to support his application (of course, we have told him that about one million times).</p>
<p>I didn’t show her mine. It never really occurred to me that I should.</p>
<p>No, I don’t think that I did show my son last year. I joked with him about what I would say when I was frustrated with him. My daughter will probably want to see them. I have no problem showing them to her and would have shown my son had he asked to see them. There wasn’t really anything that would surprise them.</p>
<p>I didnt show my d my letters, and she did not want me to read her essays. There was nothing in my letters that she didnt already know.</p>
<p>I felt that if she didnt want me to read her essays, one in particular spoke about my dad’s influence in her life and his death, that I should allow her that privilege. I started to worry about grammar, etc but decided that it should be on her own terms. I stayed out of it.</p>
<p>It worked for us :-)</p>