<p>WHY does Exeter make kids send in a handwritten copy of their essays?</p>
<p>…i completely overlooked this. WAIT WHAT??? where is this on their website?? why am i so blind…</p>
<p>on topic: maybe to compare your handwriting on your ssat essay/in-class essay to your exeter essay to make sure it’s really you? i’m not sure.</p>
<p>Maybe to make it more personal.</p>
<p>No-The reason is because there are people called graphologists who, by looking at ones’ handwriting, can tell that individuals true nature. Exeter comes in contact with some come application time. Exeter does this to make sure that the applicant has an affable nature etc… If the interview was strange or did not give enough info. about that applicant :)</p>
<p>second paragraph on the page for student essays: “Please respond to two essay questions in your own handwriting…”</p>
<p>Sucks, huh?</p>
<p>I’m so naive. It didn’t occur to me that someone would have someone else take the ssat for them. But if someone is that devious, why wouldn’t they pay that same person to copy out their essays?</p>
<p>Exeterrr, can’t be. They admitted my son and everything about his handwriting screams sociopath. :)</p>
<p>It does not matter if his handwriting is sociopathic. For example, if his handwriting slants forward, it means that he is amiable, “open”, and social. The fact of the matter is that if someones handwriting is “perfect” that individual is robot-like, which is bad</p>
<p>Hah. Because he was accepted, dispite his handwriting, I am positive that he a good-natured individual etc… :)</p>
<p>Or that forward slant could mean that you went to Catholic school and cower in the corner every time someone pulls out a ruler.</p>
<p>What if you have perfect handwriting but dot your i’s with little hearts? Are you a loving robot?</p>
<p>I can change my handwriting at will to more than three very distinct styles. Do I have multiple personality disorder?</p>
<p>Enough fun for tonight. Zzzzzzz</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHA-Well, I’m not a graphologist, but thats what I’ve read online (Haha) The part where Its “bad to be a robot” was an inference.</p>
<p>No one is beat with a ruler in Catholic school. Those stereotypes are so out-dated.</p>
<p>O.k…</p>
<p>BTW Quizzical—12 years ago, when my d went to pre-school at our Catholic School, (where i did get the ruler on my tush when i was in 2nd grade), I signed a release that my d could be spanked, with a ruler my the principal. I was ok with that, my d never got a spanking.</p>
<p>I think some children might need spankings. I will admit that my d never got a spanking from me. Punishment was much more meaningful to her. She asked to get a spanking vs no “social reading”. She felt a spanking was quick and over and done with, where punishment could go on…forever.</p>
<p>I raised a child that didnt need spankings. But she is an only child. Would her sibling(s) need spankings, not sure, but I would not rule it out. Each child is different and needs different techniques to be disciplined.</p>
<p>Times have changed, and most Catholic schools don’t do that. I, for one, have not seen or heard about a Catholic school who still does that.</p>
<p>As my son composes his essays on his computer, it wasn’t a matter of providing a typewritten copy of a handwritten original. He had to create a handwritten copy of his printed original! It took a long time.</p>
<p>Right. That’s what 99% of kids do. My d does prewriting with a pen and paper, but composes on the computer. Just when she thought she was done, she had to sit down and write it all out. She had a few choice words.</p>
<p>Hooray for erasable ink!</p>
<p>LOL I didn’t make one mistake on the Essays</p>
<p>My mom thinks that Exeter might have a graphologist when she heard about the requirement. My history teacher thinks its an elitist thing. So, you be the judge.</p>
<p>I have terrible handwriting and I always type EVERYTHING on the computer, so it was kind of a pain to write them out neatly. But, at least I’m behind them now.</p>
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Second opinion: so they can compare the handwriting to the handwriting of the SSAT essay and be comfortable that the applicants actually wrote it themselves.</p>