No.  Kristin will help your student with brainstorming and drafting, and make suggestions for essays further along in the process, but will not write your student’s essay for them.  Your student’s essay should reflect their own authentic voice; having an essay in whole or in part written for them is considered fraud on most applications.

Kristin will leave marginal comments and paragraph format feedback at the end of the essays with suggestions on how to revise both higher-order and lower-order content. She will also include resources for your student to use along the way of revision. Your student can share PDF or Word documents, preferably. Please do not include Google Doc links for privacy reasons. 

At no time has authenticity been valued more by colleges than today.  While the stress of writing admissions essays may lead some students to shortcut the process with AI, such avenues of essay “writing” are nonetheless unethical and can actually harm your student’s chances with their dream school.  AI writing has a tendency to be generic and formulaic, which abjectly fails to showcase your student’s talents or their voice.

The Fraud Policy presented by Common App uses the following wording in Section iii:

“Submitting plagiarized essays or other written or oral material, or intentionally misrepresenting as one’s own original work: (1) another person’s thoughts, language, ideas, expressions, or experiences or (2) the substantive content or output of an artificial intelligence platform (emphasis added), technology, or algorithm.”

Read more about the Common App’s fraud policy here.

Ultimately, it is up to your and your student’s discretion as to whether or not a chosen essay will be submitted in good conscience given the ever-fluctuating perspectives on rapidly evolving technology. Kristin pledges that no generative AI is used in her instruction and editing.  Furthermore, Kristin reserves the right to decline working with any student whose essay is suspected of having been generated or modified with AI.