If the poster is an excellent writer, well then, he’s an excellent writer. If it’s true, acknowledging it hardly makes him arrogant. His posts, written here informally on an Internet site, likely without great effort at heavy-duty editing, show clear writing and thinking, with a lucid, explanatory style. I don’t know how good his essays may have been, but his writing herein is pretty decent.
@DrDean794, I hope you didn’t actually send five letters of recommendation. If you did, hope that the committee ignored letters three through five. Two is great, three is iffy, and only if it provides some additional insight from a completely different perspective into your character. Five is the kiss o’ death.
As well, your ACT almost rules you out. And your GPA doesn’t help. Your application is not one that has even the ordinary chance (roughly 5%) of acceptance. It’s considerably more than a long shot for you to be admitted. Still, stranger things have happened…
Working in your favor is the low-income status. But I doubt that will make up for the relatively-low ACT and GPA.