Essay blunder?

College Essays
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<p>I think I might have made a serious blunder on my UNC CH essay. Will this hurt me?</p>

<p>The prompt for the UNC CH essay (submitted in Nov.) was “If you were principal of your school, what would you change”</p>

<p>My school does block scheduling and I didn’t like it, so I said I would remove it. For one of my points, I said that it is especially tough for AP students because you have to learn a full year’s material in 1 semester.
The part where I think I messed up is I also said …</p>

<p>that I had to stay up really late (maybe 3 am) on a daily basis because I was taking 3 AP classes in 1 semester, which caused me to fall asleep in class a few times, resulting in a few academic shortfalls.</p>

<li>Will they not like the fact that I slept in class? I know lots of ppl do it, but I wrote it in my essay.</li>
<li>Do I sound like I’m whining? </li>
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<p>Will this hurt me? I didn’t realize when I wrote my actual essay. When you read the essay it doesn’t sound so bad. But, I fear that if they are skimming it, then they might read the part where I said I fell asleep in class, which might look bad.</p>

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<p>it’ll tell the officers that u sleep and class and that ur not used to a heavy load… so if ur applying to a top notch or ivy league it’ll hurt u making the officers think if this guy cant handle heavy load during high school what’s he going to do in college</p>

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<p>^^ thats not necessarily true.</p>

<p>they know youre human. they expect that.</p>

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<p>Who hasn’t fell asleep in class?
No One</p>

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<p>At least you’re being honest and candid. I think they’ll view this as refreshing. I see no problem with what you wrote. Relax.</p>

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<p>I think it proves your point and it is honest. not a blunder</p>

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<p>Thanks for the replies. I feel much better haha.</p>