<p>I think my common app essay is the worst piece of trash I’ve ever written.</p>
<p>But I do like my Yale supplement essay quite a bit, even though I exceeded the word limit by about 200 words. </p>
<p>I am so not gonna get in.</p>
<p>Not that I didn’t already know that.</p>
<p>Right, I just needed to vent. I spent New Year’s Eve frantically trying to force myself to write an essay for the common application and I’ve been up till 5 a.m. (Singapore time) writing that insipid essay and I’ve got to the point where I’m so tired I can’t even think straight anymore. Oh well.</p>
<p>I’m sure everything will be okay. There are so many other factors Yale take into account. Just don’t stress over it. You’ll be fine. Take a nap. Relax. Enjoy yourself. Good luck!</p>
<p>elizabeth: I was about to take offence to that until I remember edthe number of people with less-than-good English in this country. On the bright side, I’m (obviously) not the only person with good English. :)</p>
<p>I didn’t mean to offend. It’s just with online communication, people don’t always follow rules of grammar and punctuation, myself included, so I thought it was interesting that a non-native speaker did while native speakers didn’t.</p>
<p>hahah tripwires we are SOO the same. except, I got so tired last night, I just decided to go to bed (at 3 AM). then of course, I was ■■■■■■■■, and slept in until… 2 PM. now I have 5 hours to write a common app essay. **** **** **** **** *****. ahhhh. why do i always do this to myself hahah</p>
<p>LoL… I think im in the same boat. With the exception of like the short essays most of my essays were written in the times between 2AM - 6AM… I hope it doesn’t completely kill us!</p>
<p>if this makes u feel better: at least u didn’t make a subj-verb agreement error in your title for EVERY college u applied to AFTER u sent them…it happened to me. and my essays are on cliched topics.</p>
<p>they managed to find a cure for cancer while weaving baskets underwater in the arctic ocean. or maybe I am confusing them with someone on CC. er, they annoyed the hell out of me for the past four years. but it’s almost over! thank goddddddd</p>
<p>LoL mine didnt even have titles -_- Character count …</p>
<p>Rikataka I thought you were serious for a second, I was going to be like O_O</p>
<p>After thought… I think all essays end up being cliche with like 40,000+ apps. There’s only so much you can talk about that shows your character without showing a bad side…</p>
<p>elizabeth: LOL. I know what you mean. I’m a bit of an anal retentive grammar Nazi freak though, so maybe that explains it.</p>
<p>Ritakata: That was the funniest thing I’ve read all day (your post about wanting to accept your parents). My mom read it and laughed too.</p>
<p>I don’t even think my common app essay revealed anything about myself. Sigh. I hope Yale values the supplement essay more than the other one, though that’s obviously wishful thinking on my part. Ahhhh.</p>
<p>Wow, join the club, tripwire, rikataka, ejm! You were the image of me 7 hours ago. Eventually I gave up and went to bed. My brain really deserved a rest. It was going on strike, you know. Now there are still Pton’s two supp essays to be done, and I’ve run clean out of worthwhile ideas, cliched or not, so I don’t know what to ramble about next.
Seriously though, we really shouldn’t stay up that late. It screws up your brain and makes your thoughts all jumbled, and the damage can be lasting >_<
StudentConfidential: that must have felt nasty when you found out. I blundered with a verb in my Harvard supp essay too; got deferred. Still, no one is senseless enough to reject you solely because you forgot a stupid verb. There are limits to insanity.</p>
<p>don’t scare me, miaoling…tell me your deferral wasn’t based “that much” on your grammar mistake… I didn’t forget a verb though, it was a subj. verb agreement. am i paranoid or am i dead for college? <em>hides behind comp</em></p>
<p>Oh yeah, a verb alone can’t spell “autoreject” for you, rest assured. Although I’m not denying there’s a bit of a bad impression involved. In my case it’s only justified that I got deferred, because my common essay was 900ish words, there’s this misconjugated verb in the supp essay, my recs weren’t glowing and my transcripts were definitely bad. You know what, I’m actually glad they didn’t reject me right away. You still have a lot other things going for you, don’t freak out!</p>
<p>You got deferred from Harvard with all that working against you? Wow. Your supplementary materials (recommendations, ECs, essays, etc) must be REALLY good. :)</p>
<p>I slept at 7 a.m. this morning and woke up at 1.30 in the afternoon and my head is still hurting. </p>
<p>SC, don’t worry! They won’t hold that error against you. We all make mistakes.</p>