Coincidentally Similar Essays

craisins4lyfe
Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:34:24 +0000

My friend and I are both applying to Columbia University ED (both of our own accord, not necessarily because we want to go to college together). Having both submitted our apps on the 1st, we just now decided to give each other’s essays a look. They are remarkably similar, in more ways than simply the idea, and we hadn’t discussed our essays at all up to this point. Basically, I wrote about photography and it’s connection to my childhood and used photography as a vehicle to more broadly discuss my past and self-perception. He did more of less the same thing with film. Some specific lines are eerily similar. Even the construction and progression are similar. It’s kind of hilarious, except that it has me worried about how admissions committees might perceive the similarities if they notice them (assuming that readers are assigned to specific regions, the same reader would see both our essays). Your thoughts?