New Essay Content at CC

max0103
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:46:23 +0000

Hey!
so I wrote an essay for the common app and I’m having the same problem that the first reply on this thread was talking about…my topic’s quite different from the second essay in the article (the rube goldberg one), but my structure seems kind of similar. I have a lead that, while not as dramatic as hers, still doesn’t really tell you where you’re going until the 2nd paragraph in a similar style to how she did it. Then in the last sentence at the very end I bring back that lead. I’m really disappointed because I worked really hard on it and thought it was great before I read these essays, but now I’m wondering if I should change it because people might think I stole her structure (even though I didn’t because I didn’t read this article until after I had written my entire draft of this essay).

That kind of structure is something I’ve been taught to do for a long time in classes… should I change it, or is it common enough anyways that it won’t really matter to an admissions officer?