Please Evaluate My Chances For Yale. Thanks!

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Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:12:47 +0000

Many people think that the essay must be 2 pages, double spaced or less because otherwise, the adcoms will get bored of long essays. If you can produce an enormous essay but still make it exciting and brilliant, it will still be very effective. Matter of fact, some of the best essays that are received by Harvard, Yale, and other top schools are over 8 pages in length. These essays contain no “b.s.” and every word and sentence in the essay exists for a reason. I have seen adcoms abhor statistically (Grades, SAT scores, etc…) exceptional candidates because of poor essays and admire candidates with good credentials (nothing spectacular) with wonderful essays.

Unless you really can’t type more than a page’s worth of your passionate activity; don’t force yourself to abridge or truncate it. Just let your heart and mind flow onto the paper. First, brainstorm the essay - don’t worry about the correct organization or word construction in the beginning - pour your heart and mind onto those pieces of paper in front of your eyes. Then, revise the essay and start organizing it. After that, look at the essay again and again and make corrections. Let your professors read it and dissect that essay until you know that sentence to sentence and word to word, it is - in your opinion - perfectly supporting of your thesis.