<p>I have many ideas for essay topics and many quirky facts I want to let the admission officers know. Not to tute my own horn, but I am a good writer that, if given a good amount of time and inspiration, can produce some really great essays. Even if we are required to only send 2 essays, would they be turned off by an applicant adding another fairly short (500-700 word) essay? ...assuming the essays are not the typical run of the mill essays topics/structure.</p>
<p>I think instead for directing energy to writing a third essay, you should commit yourself to writing two REALLY REALLY amazing essays. Just my two cents. Admissions officers have a lot of applicants and limited time.</p>
<p>I second ImmanuelKant’s post.</p>
<p>I third your mom.</p>
<p>plinz: Most applicants to Yale would probably rate their writing skills as “very high”. If I were you, I’d follow Y’s guidelines and not consider yourself needing/wanting special consideration.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you. Knock 'em out.</p>
<p>“Not to tute my own horn, but I am a good writer”</p>
<p>lol it’s ‘toot’</p>
<p>lmao :D</p>
<p>LOL^</p>
<p>And you repeated “many” twice in the first sentence.</p>
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<p>It might be redundant, but it’s not technically incorrect. Come on guys, nobody’s perfect. :)</p>
<p>Yes, but good writers aren’t redundant.</p>
<p>Carin:</p>
<p>My emphasis on the word “many” is a type of amplification, more specifically conduplicatio. Yes, look it up because I am sure you don’t know much about rhetorical devices. You, yourself, claim that “redundancy” is not “good writing” when in fact it is heavily used in some of the most memorable speeches and letters such as “Letter from Birmingham Jail” which is studied for its use of rhetorical devices or, as you claim, “redundancy.” Are you saying that MLK wasn’t a “good writer”?</p>
<p>Now that you showed you can correctly spell an onomatopoeia and know oh so much about composition, I am sure you will write some excellent essays. And keep up the dry humor with the “I third your mom” remark. It’s one of your better qualities! Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but I wasn’t aware that this was a formal composition, of which you were so keenly intent on including rhetoric and other literary terms that you have “oh so” well mastered. My cheeks turn red at the thought of even trying to embarrass you, a stranger encountered through an online forum. Of course, your post debating whether or not you should write an extra essay for the Yale Class of 2014 Application is obviously, as you said, “a memorable speech and letter.” I hope one day, little boys and little girls (your conduplicatio is well regarded in this sense) get a day off from school in recognition of your carefully written, thoughtful, and definitely powerful composition that will go down in the books as a revolutionary classic, a canon in the field of English literature. I praise thee, holy one.</p>
<p>Dude, stop being a prick. I never asserted my essays were going to rival those of Anthony Burgess or MLK. I said being “redundant” is a writing style so your narrow-minded self would understand. </p>
<p>Stop making assumptions and stop being so dramatic.</p>
<p>Wow, we’ve got some catty literary critics in the Yale 2014 applicant pool. Language isn’t black and white kids.</p>
<p>So I’m the one that’s a being a prick? I was just poking fun until you decided to go “formal” (for online chatting standards) and be all passive aggressive/defensive. Of course I understand the use of redundancy, as I do public speaking and such. I understand that it’s for emphasis, and I didn’t even directly say you weren’t capable of writing well. I made my judgments and remarks based on a few sentences from an online thread. Really? You need to relax. You’re the one who said the following:</p>
<p>“Now that you showed you can correctly spell an onomatopoeia and know oh so much about composition, I am sure you will write some excellent essays. And keep up the dry humor with the “I third your mom” remark. It’s one of your better qualities! Good luck!”</p>
<p>Yeah. I’m the prick.</p>
<p>i miss yellow lines in my roads
some color on monochrome
maybe i’ll paint them in myself
maybe i’ll paint them in myself</p>
<p>these sidewalks liquid then stone
building walls and an old pay phone
it rings like all through the daylight
it rings like all through the daylight</p>
<p>Is it sad that I came upon that song watching a commercial for a delicious alcoholic beverage?</p>
<p>No. I saw the Bacardi commercial, and then later on I saw it on YouTube and I’m like, “Where did I hear this?” It was eerily, yet pleasantly, reminiscent.</p>