<p>see question above…
I have heard some colleges require you to submit a graded piece of work. I am going to be a senior next year, and I have been recycling most of my old school work. Should I save my best project and best paper just in case? Does it have to be an English paper, or can I use a US History DBQ/FRQ?
I plan on appying to Cornell, UPenn, NYU, Wake Forest, Emory…</p>
<p>It can’t hurt to save one or two things.</p>
<p>Yes, definitely. Why would you throw out something perfectly excellent?
You can also save them just in case you want to enter essay contests and such in the future.
It’s just a good idea to save your work if it demonstrates your skills.</p>
<p>For one (large) merit scholarship opportunity, my D was asked to present a graded written paper (any subject) 2-3 pages in length.</p>
<p>And even if you don’t submit anything, wouldn’t it be interesting in a few plus years to find your old work and read it? I saved some of my elementary and middle school stuff, and it was really fun when I went through that stuff.</p>
<p>If it was a nice paper, wouldn’t you have it on your computer in electronic form? I save things, but if it gets to be too cluttered, I feel its simpler to just leave things in electronic format and get rid of the paper copy.</p>
<p>Vasudevank, very true! However, I do like keeping some of the graded ones because sometimes the teachers leave helpful/nice comments :]</p>
<p>^Yeah, like i said I try to save good things, but sometimes a lot of graded assignments get cluttered so the minor ones I throw away.</p>