I feel sick to my stomach (I sent a 9 page Additional Information) Can ask to resend?

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<p>I feel sick to my stomach (I sent a 9 page Additional Information) Can ask to resend?</p>

<p>Jesus… I feel so sick to my stomach. I feel like an idiot. I sent a 9 page Additional Information…</p>

<p>Has my admissions chances gone down the drain? I applied to very selective school…</p>

<p>Wow, I’m just an idiot… </p>

<p>Basically… </p>

<p>1-2 page – my background, and where a came from…
3 page – awards/miscellaneous things
4-9 – my extracurricular activities (18 of them)</p>

<p>basically, for some of them i wrote no more than 3 sentences describing what the club/activity was</p>

<p>however, for others, it took up half a page…</p>

<p>omg… i can’t sleep… i worked so hard</p>

<p>Do you think I can e-mail colleges and re-send a more organized version of it?</p>

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<p>Lol. What were you thinking?</p>

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<p>Redundant. You already have the application to express every single one of those aspects. If I were you I would e-mail them asking to throw it away… but if you worked so hard on it you should really really try to condense it to MAX 2 pages (preferably under 1) and re-send it.</p>

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<p>Is it normal for students to do this? Like re-send information after the deadline.</p>

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<p>You should’ve just done what I did. I just attached a comprehensive resume that was 1.75 pages long. That would’ve encompassed everything you did in your 9 pages.</p>

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<p>Do not resend anything, even in a condensed form.
Most likely, the person reading your file will just ignore it.</p>

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<p>No, it’s not normal. But what’s done is done. Like silicon said, your best hope is that the college will just ignore it.</p>

<p>A nine-page summary of yourself and activities just screams self-centeredness, insecurity and lack of awareness of the needs of the file reader.</p>

<p>Good luck to you nonetheless. I’m sure you have great achievements and have a bright future ahead of you. Try to minimalize future “freak outs” which led you to submitting the 9 page monster.</p>

<p>People should really take note here.</p>

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<p>Lol… which college? And what essay questions did they require?</p>

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<p>Also, why do you feel compelled to tell us about how you feel sick to your stomach? That makes it sound like something terribly gruesome and uncontrollable happened to you.</p>

<p>Or you shouldn’t have eaten the fish last night. Either way, we don’t really care.</p>

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<p>I sent a 4 page activity sheet. It’s very long mainly because of the formatting; is that an issue?</p>

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<p>For future reference:</p>

<p>Do not include 9 pages of additional info. Do not mention every little activity. Do not mention every minute of community service. Do not mention every class award or recognition. </p>

<p>A well written HS resume should be limited to ONE page. If desperately needed, you may continue on to a page 2 but a well written resume at this stage in your life should be one page.</p>

<p>What’s done is done. Don’t make the same mistake on your other applications.<br>
Additional info should be reserved for uploading a well written one page resume or an explanation of a particular personal circumstance or event.</p>

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<p>Folks - consider that the very selective schools have tens of thousands of applications. They know what information they need and don’t need. They don’t need 9 pages of details, and are quite unlikely to read through it all. Readers can allow themselves just so much time for each initial reading, after all. Would you rather they actually paid attention to the important parts , or got bored to tears by your explanations of the many things you did but didn’t spent much time on?</p>

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<p>Plus, it makes you seem like the kind of tool who expects the Dean of Admissions at the college to read the college’s website to them and to walk them to each class every day of freshman year.</p>

<p>But they won’t reject you because of that.</p>

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<p>Less is more.</p>