College Admission Essays

What kind of college are we talking about?

I mean, unless you are wanting a top school or are applying to schools where your grades pale in comparison to the average, or something like law or med school, these essays are more or less a test to make sure you can complete a sentence and a coherent couple of paragraphs.

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Originally Posted by Ender

Personally, I'm applying to upper-division schools, not Yale or anything, but good schools. I have heard that in some colleges the essay is quite important, not just a tie-breaker for same/similar GPA's.

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It really depends on all the circumstances. I mean, you don't want a shit essay, but as long as it is proofed, readable, and semi-decent, you can't have that much of a problem. Remember that for every over-achiever there's some guy like me who doesn't give a fuck and will rely on the rest of the application: grades, extra-curriculars, residency.

It is wholly possible that it could be the tie-breaker between you getting in and not. Yes. But chances are that it won't matter much, if at all.

Also: You don't want to say you're applying to be, like, an English major and have a crap essay. If you want to be a biologist, it probably isn't as important. And, yeah, different colleges probably look at it differently. Swarthmore, probably yes, Penn State, probably not so much.

My essay to get into grad school for computer science was absolute shit, but I still got in. I put a lot more work into law school. I mean...if you want to put a lot of work into it, you can. It's not a bad thing, certainly. But since you're already trying to take shortcuts by posting it to Internet sites to have people doing work you should be doing, I'm assuming how much you want to put in isn't much, and it's likely whatever you have is going to be good enough 90% of the time.

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