More Common App essay troubles!

Skullduggery
Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:47:32 +0000

^ That was exactly my point. Colleges want to get to know you outside of the stiffness of most applications, and not everyone can go to every campus for interviews. It’s rather irksome for a student with a 3.5 but capable of a 4.0 to be judged solely on grades and short blurbs about why you want to go to College Y and what makes it so awesome, when Adcoms probably hear the same things repeatedly no matter how unique you may try to be.