<p>Say your essays are beloved by your teachers and they say they are unique would that help a lot YALE SCEA?</p>
<p>umm essays are a huge part of the app, but they arent the only things.
good essays will certainly help, but with Yale SCEA, the applicant pool is pretty much amazing, so i dont know about it helping “a lot” (as in forgiving other areas), but great essays can distinguish an applicant.</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>From Chuck Hughes, former Senior Admissions Officer, Harvard College:</p>
<p>“Most essays will be read by one or two people. Craft a well-written story, but do not overemphasize its significance in the process. A solid, well-written essay should be your primary concern.” </p>
<p>“While an effective essay can pull a candidate’s story and the application more closely together, the instances where the essay adds more than color or a complement are few and far between.”</p>
<p>Essays are definitely important, but they more than likely won’t help “a lot.”</p>
<p>You need to be a compelling candidate before your essays in order for them to have any real effect. But I suppose that if you’ve passed the first cut or two EA, numbers start to blend in with each other… and personal qualities derived from recs and essays can make a difference.</p>
<p>Essays are probably one of those factors that can push a qualified (but not necessarily outstanding based on stats alone) over the edge. So for those of us that are in the middling part of the applicant pool (i.e. not autorejects, but not Intel winners or recruited athletes either), essays can play a significant role. Otherwise, if the rest of your app isn’t up to par, they will probably have little effect.</p>