Wait, what?? You got this email this year? My dd applied ED and hasn’t gotten an email about this!
Wake buries a Why Wake essay in the contacts section of the common app. So sneaky.
Last year, Denison made a big deal on their admissions page that they knew kids had better things to do with their time and they had no supplemental essays. About 3 weeks after the application was submitted, my student got an email or portal notice that there was an optional “why us” essay. I think it was pretty underhanded and a way to get their app numbers up for selectivity but easily cull out the disinterested applicants.
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These posts about Grinnell and Denison and others sending these supplemental requests after applications in are so shady and make me furious. It is disrespectful to the kids who put tons of hours into their applications and planning their time to spring an after the fact essay on them. If it is true that they are gaming the system to sus out interest, it borders on unethical. Playing games with interested students time to up your total number of apps and your yield is scuzzy! These kids futures are not a game. Any school who does this with D26 will get a serious downgrade on our list even if it is one she is most interested in now!
I should add that one of D26s schools had six supplementals, six! She did them because she is very interested in the school. I imagine some students would decide not to apply because of them. But they were upfront about them, not springing them on kids after they applied to up their apps and their yield.
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Sorry, no it was last year. Also, i would not expect them to ask ED students to do it. You already promised to attend.
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