<p>I hope schools don’t assume ridiculously meticulous punctuation means parental interference. I’m one of those people who proofread their essays and go, “well it really should be ‘high-school chemistry class’ but it looks so weird with the hyphen, but it’s technically required so I’ll put it in.”</p>
<p>Taking hyphens literally will drive you insane, according to the author of “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves,” but I do. And I am equally silly about other punctuation. I hope adcoms will believe I actually editted my essays myself…</p>