Clarify/early apply

<p>I really agree with what Ben said in #13 (about later apps being better by virtue of experience). You’d be surprised how much better your essays start to sound after a bit of practice with a few other schools. When I looked back at my essays after the whole college mess, I reread the ones I wrote for MIT (applied early), and for Caltech (submitted last, after writing about ten other application essays). The difference was unbelieveable. There was no question as to why I got into Caltech and not MIT. If I were on the MIT comittee, I probably would have rejected my own application. It was that bad.
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<p>Don’t ignore this part: Practice helps. If you’re completely dead set on a certain school, be very very careful about choosing to apply there early.</p>

<p>-Oren</p>