How much does an average essay hurt chances?

DwightEisenhower
Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:53:13 +0000

You seem to be conflating the quality of an admissions essay with the extent to which it is a narrative. Not all good essays are narratives. Some are, but some bad essays are also narratives.

If you wrote an “average” essay in general, that is bad because you are competing with enough people who wrote stellar essays to fill up the class twice over, and you want every advantage you can get. But if you wrote a good essay that happens to not be in narrative form, that’s nothing to worry about.