@glasshours thanks and I KNOW!! I’m going to have student debt before I even get into college!! I emailed the assistant to the President of Princeton… closest person I could get to him, so hopefully she’ll either notify him or he already knows. It can’t hurt.
I still have to edit my common app essay and all my supplements 
I really don’t know how I’m going to be finished by Nov 1 And my teachers haven’t uploaded their recommendations yet! Does anyone know if I can submit my common app without my teacher recs uploaded? Will they “follow” the application even after I submit it?
@CluelessCathy Yeah, you can submit your application without the teacher recommendations in. To be honest, the hard deadline (11/1) mainly applies to your portion of the application. Colleges tend to give more leeway on transcripts/rec letters and are understanding if they arrive slightly later. When your teacher uploads your rec, they attach it to your Common App and send it, and it will go to the school and become part of your file there.
So cb sort of screwed up my sat scores. When I looked at my college portal, it said I only sent one subject test and it also says that on Cb website but when I checked my email for the confirmation receipt, it says that they would send both subject tests. This is so weird
I’m here!
So, I have a problem. I already submitted the list of my current courses to MIT and I did so before I got switched out of AP Stat and into TA for next semester (I know I said I was planning to get out, but that was more me planning to get out if the colleges I got admitted to didn’t mind…but I have now switched out without asking the colleges because of scheduling conflicts with AP Econ). Should I just call them and tell them about it? Or send an e-mail or something?
@XoXdreamerXoX Email should be fine \o/. They’ll understand.
http://mitadmissions.org/apply/freshman/midyear
I think the February updates are also used for you to tell them about stuff like this.
I’m sending my MIT apps like later today 
Do you happen to know what are we supposed to do with the optional section?
@qwerytiop …there’s an optional section? I just did Application Part 1 and Part 2 and then the rest was out of my hands.
@XoXdreamerXoX uh page 9 of part 2? Additional stuff box that’s optional lol.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh…
Yeah, I didn’t write anything. I honestly felt I answered everything in the rest of the app.
Oh man another all nighter…I can’t wait
@LordBendtner 2 days until the application deadline and my essays are still absolutely terrible. Another all nighter for me as well
I’ve been reading some sample essays of students accepted by the ivy league, and I think the majority of them are average. Good writing style and grammar (which I think most people can achieve with enough time), but the ideas are very broad. I’m beginning to wonder if essays really play as big a role in admissions as people on CC like to think. I mean, aren’t your test scores, GPA and extracurriculars better measures of intelligence, work ethics and leadership?
Maybe a lot of essays they get aren’t as good as we think. Or maybe they were just better compared to the rest of the applicant pool.
But for real though, I tried my best on my essays to make up for everything you just listed so that’s one reason for my bias.
What do u mean by broad ideas though
What’s your guys’ opinion on not keeping things grammatically correct in your common app essay? Like I got an 800 in grammar and honestly know when something is wrong, but usually my essay flows better if I go the wrong way.
For example, I neglect the semicolon almost always even though I know it should be used just because I want it to look and sound better. I also start a lot of sentences with “and” and “but” so idk I’m just curious if they really do look at grammar or what.
Also, do you guys think they like have my grammar score or my essay score out as they read my essay? And maybe think like hey he got an 800 so it doesn’t matter that this is grammatically incorrect of the opposite: hey he got an 800 why isn’t he writing like it?
I tried to focus more on context and how I get my message across. Usually when people proof read my stuff, that’s when they point out errors. Idk I kinda hate grammar
My GC said he’d write me a letter in September. I spoke to him about it today, and he said “Sure, I’ll write you one.”
I can’t believe he FORGOT to write me one! I already applied to ENC, so now they’ll only have one rec letter.
And now, you guys are finally realizing the biggest mistake in academic history: College Board.
I know I am intruding, but @baller55 using those words to start off sentences is a writing style. Many would say that using words like ‘but’ or ‘and’ to start off sentences is grammatically incorrect, but it actually isn’t wrong.