<p>Hi,
i went to check my essay on the CB site, and its all blotchy, words are missing, letters are morphed, to tell the truth its garbage…The essay readers get a scan, not the orignal, i think this is rubbish. </p>
<p>wow dood thats crap quality…and a monochrome scanner…anyways what did u get on the essay anyways ??..i mean it depends but if its like umm a 6 or 8 and and u think ur essay was good then definetly…</p>
<p>ok, iv gotten two different answers from two different people at the college board. One says the readers get an original copy the other says the reader gets a scanned copy, who is right?
Justin</p>
<p>For the SAT, the essays are scored on line, so they have to used a copy. I don’t know what they do if it’s illegible, though. Your paper was legible, thought you seem to have ignored the straight lines.</p>
<p>For the AP essays, the readers get the original essay.</p>
<p>If the person at the call center misunderstood what you wanted to know, it would explain the two different answers.</p>
<p>You’re lucky you got an 8, to say the least.</p>
<p>[ul][<em>]Your essay is -far- too short. Not only do you not use up all of the vertical space, you seem to not want to use up 20% of the horizontal space.
[</em>]There’s no response to the prompt, “Do we tend to accept the opinions of others instead of developing our own independent ideas?” You do give some analysis about how war and the consequent effects cause some opinions to be coerced out of the marketplace; however, your answer seems to be “yes, because people are forced to, look at all of this historical empiric,” which doesn’t fully answer the question: suppressing thought does not equate to accepting the opinions of others.
[<em>]Your first argument, that of Hitler taking over in Germany post-World War I, is your best one, though it isn’t fully developed. You need more analysis about why the German people did not care about the Holocaust, and in addition, you open a whole new can of worms with the last sentence (“those who objected to Hitler were also put into concentration camps”) that doesn’t have any support whatsoever attached.
[</em>]Your second argument sounds exactly like your first argument, but substituting “Bush” for “Hitler.” Uh-oh. Don’t give the readers a reason to mark you down. It also lacks the support structure that I mentioned in the last bullet point.
[li]Your third argument is so obviously made up off the top of your head that it’s not funny.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Personally, I’d give the essay a 3 (and on a bad day, probably a 2). If there were two of me, you’d get a 6.</p>
<p>i agree that the first and the second are rather similar, but the 3rd example did happen to my old history teacher, sorry if it sounded that way. Taking Iraq to war is fairly different to destroying a race…the point of the essay is that people accept through suppressing their own point of view “Most people in society stand by and agree with the opinions of other people…the few people that stand up to society are pushed into place” Maybe you just skipped over the introduction?</p>
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