I feel like I’m just losing my own voice through some of the edits people made to my essays. But then again I’m worried the people who read my app won’t understand me or will have the same problems as well.
@letmeseetheworld That’s why I avoided having very many people read my essays. Some colleges also tell you to especially avoid English teachers because that’s where you’ll lose your voice the most. I just wrote to the point where I still sounded like myself with no grammatical errors to the best of my knowledge. The only person I really asked was my counselor, and he didn’t really try to edit the content of my essays, but rather offered me feedback on the overall content and message. It’s best to find those people, in my opinion.
Same as @XoXdreamerXoX, I just had people read based on the content and how they felt about it. I ha one friend look at some grammar/word choice but that’s it. I feel too grammatically correct writings tend to take voice away from a person’s writing
My problem is that I keep getting feedback about “awkward phrasing” or whatever which makes me think that other people will not understand what I am trying to say.
@letmeseetheworld If the phrasing is how you would describe what happened then I think it’s fine. Admissions people have read thousands of essays, they know how to find your ideas.
I think I’m really done this time and ready to submit. But I also want my older sibling to read over it when she gets home.
I’m going to post here what I texted my friends. Best of luck. Hitting that submit button is craziness. It’s all out of our hands now. December 15th(or whenever you find out) will come soon enough.
I think I’m done editing. Just need to read everything over and press submit 
Do you guys think not self reporting AP scores will effect chances at merit scholarships? I’m kinda freaking out right now.
I just can’t wait until this is all over. I’m tired my helicopter parents who don’t respect me. I feel so stressed and they act like they give me support (for show, honestly) but they always make me feel like I’m worthless. My father basically just screamed at me to apply to some scholarships where you need to be a community service freak and religious. I don’t do community service for a church so idk how they think I’m going to get a rec from a clergy member who knows me well. I’m not sure how to explain to them that I’m not a Catholic (I’m agnostic) without getting yelled at or slapped. I don’t feel comfortable lying/bs-ing an essay about my beliefs and the numerous community service activities I did.
I just want out at this point. I’ve had to suffer through this for years.
Fall 2016, please come fast…
I called to ask my EC if he was going to submit my interview evaluation tonight and felt kind of bad because I think he was looking for me to talk to him about more than just the interview.
Finished and submitted Chicago and Rutgers EA today, Penn ED yesterday. 
Applied EA to UChicago and ED to Dartmouth
Pressed the submit button! MOST STRESSFUL 24 HOURS OF MY LIFE #:-S
Where did you all apply early (those who haven’t named their colleges yet).
I applied to MIT EA, which is essentially what I’ve been talking about non-stop for the past few posts.
HELP ASAP: Do we need to mail in our transcripts separately using Parchment or did our GCs do it with the “School Report” ?? I’m applying to princeton ea
Omg I shouldn’t have waited till the last minute
Good luck to everyone who applied EA to UChicago!
@SippinCoffee if ur counselor uses naviance to submit all docs the transcript should’ve been included
Finished all my early schools! (Finally self-reported all my grades to my state flagship which took forever omg)
Good luck to everyone with November 1 deadlines who have already applied or are still applying! You got this!!!
CONGRATS EVERYONE!