<p>At minimum, she should fill out the common app ASAP. Even if all the schools don’t use it, they will require almost all of the information ON the common app in their apps and collecting it all can take time. If she can’t find time to write her essays, she should be thinking long and hard about what her topic is going to be. Tell her to use her travel time to and from the OFs wisely and to grab as much sleep as she can, whenever she can. </p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>Hi GFG,
Encourage her to write the essays “in her head” while she’s training. It’s a good distraction. Also, get her to write the obvious one about sports first, and get it over with, so she can focus on the topics that aren’t going to come quite as easily.</p>
<p>I wish I could tell you essays got written promptly at our house, but they don’t. Surprisingly, they came out fine, although very last minute. This caused me to lose a lot of sleep, but not the child. D2 is falling into the same pattern. Where did I go wrong?</p>
<p>About Stats. This is not going to make or break her for admission anywhere. If she starts freaking out, consider changing it to something else, if not this semester, for spring. 6 AP’s=6 college classes. College students don’t take six college classes at once. </p>
<p>Best wishes. I’m so curious to see where she lands!</p>
<p>I was just wondering how much importance essays have for our applications. Whenever coaches ask you to send stuff to them, it’s always scores, transcripts, school profile, etc., never “and included a personal essay on a topic of your choice.” So do the essays even matter for athletes? If they’ve given you a pre-read and you’re fine, even at schools like Yale, Princeton, etc., will they even look at it?</p>
<p>Also, I’m not trying to get out of this or anything - I already wrote mine, and, weird as it sounds, it was very personal and I was pretty proud of it, and it’d be kinda disappointing if it wasn’t even looked at.</p>
<p>Advice received from an Ivy coach: “Take the essays seriously.” The implication was that, over the years, they had lost some solid recruits who didn’t think they mattered.</p>
<p>Essays matter.</p>
<p>If anyone has time to read my essay and give me some feedback, that would be greatly appreciated. pm or something and let me know! I need major help… writing is definitely not my forte. thanks!</p>