How Much Will Publishing Books Affect Admission?

ninakatarina
Mon, 28 May 2018 11:37:13 +0000

If you get it sold to a reputable publishing house and it comes out on the national market, that will be impressive. However, the odds of an unsolicited manuscript being accepted by one of the big houses is lower than Stanford’s acceptance rate.

Writing is a great extracurricular, and finishing what you write is rarer than you think. I think you should keep on writing as you clearly enjoy it. But don’t bank your future on just the writing. Make sure you have other arrows for your bow.