<p>I don’t have any essay to write yet. Still waiting…</p>
<p>Trying to decide if I should pursue this program at Bama where I could get my chemE bs plus MBA in 5 years, all free tuition. Word on the street is MBAs aren’t good for engineers without work experience. And if I wanted to enter business, Bama isn’t a great MBA program to launch from. It’s really a cache 22. Or catch 22. Whatever. I probably won’t even go there anyway thigh</p>
<p>The common app essay is the only one we have to write right?</p>
<p>^
Depends on what colleges you’re applying to. A lot of schools have required supplement essays.</p>
<p>As in full essays or like short answers?</p>
<p>Depends on the school.
Stanford, for example, requires three 250-word essays.
UChicago requires an extended essay (like 500 words, maybe longer) and a shorter essay about why you’re applying.</p>
<p>Guess I won’t be applying to Stanford anymore. :p</p>
<p>I thought they were easy prompts, though. </p>
<ol>
<li>Reflect on an idea or experience that has been important to your intellectual development.</li>
<li>Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate—and us—know you better.</li>
<li>What matters to you, and why?</li>
</ol>
<p>I guess those sound easy enough. Too bad my grades are not good enough for it. ):</p>
<p>I really like The University of Chicago’s essay prompts. I really don’t know what to pick; the essays require a lot of thought.</p>
<p>My essays look like word vomit.</p>
<p>@heather hi fellow uchicago applicant 
I’m working on my essays now but nothing magical has inspired me yet. Good luck w/your app!</p>
<p>i dun wanna write college essayssssssssssssssssssss</p>
<p>No one doessssss.</p>
<p>Except me, I really enjoy them. Is that weird?</p>
<p>I enjoy them. I’m applying to UChicago and Stanford solely because of their essay prompts…I don’t have any actual chance of getting in, but at least I’ll have a few pieces of writing I can be proud of.</p>
<p>The essays make me nervous bc there is so much riding on them for me. They are my make-or-break component, esp bc my EC’s are so weak.</p>
<p>Agreed. Everyone has similar grades and a similar level of ECs, but essays can be so different.</p>
<p>I know at least for me, writing admissions essays is way different than writing something for school. I think the entire time I’ve been in high school, I can only remember one real creative writing “write a story about yourself” assignment, because all we do is analytical writing (for example, my last essay I wrote was on the parallels between metaphorical blindness in a novel and political apathy in postwar Vietnam).</p>
<p>The college essays are so different (and so important) that they’re going to be really difficult for someone not used to creative writing…</p>
<p>In one of my English classes we had to write something creative every week. She set aside time for people to read them out loud on Friday, if they wanted to. Most people just wrote something stupid five minutes before class started, but it was still fun.</p>
<p>For the schools I’m applying to, the applicants are all so close that the essays will likely be one of the main separating factors. Kind of nervous about that.</p>