Which Unusual Essay to Submit?

Kasami
Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:26:58 +0000

So I wrote a very rough (and I mean ROUGH) what’s so odd about odd numbers essay, but I quite liked it until I was scrolling through the post your essay thread and saw that someone was accepted a year or so ago with a very similar essay. I didn’t copy, didn’t even know that essay existed, but now I’m rather worried about mine and if somehow it won’t hold up to scrutiny?

I have a second essay I actually wrote for an honors college I liked about my dislike of infants because of their fragility and my rejection of traditional female roles until my tiny baby sister came along, but it reads much differently. This one is far more emotional in nature, while I think it’s almost a better representation of me, my common app essay was already quite emotionally heavy. I want to show adcom that I’m capable of objective thought which is what I aimed for originally, but I’m having doubts.

Thoughts anyone? The RD deadline is fast approaching.

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