Princeton Requested Graded Paper: Must It Be A Paper That Got an A?

TiggerDad
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 16:12:12 +0000

lookingforward:

But it can put you behind the kid whose A+ paper IS well written.

True, if all other things being equal. That’s why the paper alone doesn’t mean much without other factors.

I remember reading a news item awhile back about this kid who was admitted to Stanford. I believe he wrote “#BlackLivesMatter” exactly 100 times for his essay. Obviously, the adcoms looked at the essay within the context of the kid’s whole application.