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Old 09-27-2006, 11:02 PM   #1
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Amount of time spent on college essays
How much time should a student spend on a college application essay? I'm starting now and I my top two application essays will for the UC's and USC so I have two whole months to complete them. So how much time do you guys think I should spent on them? Should I just treat it like a school project or something and spend like 20-30 minutes everyday on it?
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Old 09-28-2006, 01:03 AM   #2
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How bad do you want to go to the UC you want or USC?

If you want it bad enough then spend all the time you can spare and edit and re-edit, proof and re-proof until it is a masterpiece.

If you don't really care a lot then do it only when you have extra time.
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Old 09-28-2006, 01:08 AM   #3
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Obviously you want to spend a lot of time, as this is what distinguishes you from a bunch of numbers (SAT and GPA) from the the other similar students.
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Old 09-28-2006, 08:53 AM   #4
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I spent about 3 hours for 2 days and got a fine essay. =D
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Old 09-28-2006, 02:00 PM   #5
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agree with GoldenBear.
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Old 09-28-2006, 02:04 PM   #6
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I will sit in front of my computer for a few hours and wait for ideas to come. When a good one comes about any of my essay topics I will just write until I cannot write any more. Usually this equates to 3/4 of an essay in 3 hours. If I have a good idea I can just write and edit it later. If I dont have a good idea that I am passionate about either my essay is really bad or I dont have more than a few lines written.
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Old 09-28-2006, 04:21 PM   #7
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I spent days on my early decision, college-specific essay (not common app or UC's) last year. I edited it multiple times, made like 10 copies and had like 10 different qualified people read them. I rewrote a couple times
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