<p>Hi everyone,
I would like to ask all of you your opinions on something. I have just finished writing several practice SAT essays, and discovered something: rehashing the essay I wrote for my personal college admissions statement works wonderfully, and since I've already spent hours writing it, I know it backwards and forwards so it is relatively easy to tweak to fit the prompt (most importantly, it's well written!) </p>
<p>My question is this: my essay starts out with a very interesting narrative, THEN I get to the points about how it proves the essay prompt, rather than following the standard "introduction, examples, conclusion." Is it dangerous to do it this way since the person reading my essay can glance at it then decide it's off-topic without reading through the entire thing?</p>
<p>Oops, I probably should have put this in the SAT preparation section.</p>
<p>I think it's a bit of a danger. I mean, the SAT essays are easy as they are. I think it's a bit of a risk to put the essay on there when you could just get an 11-12 just off the traditional format. It doesn't pay off.</p>
<p>I mean, maybe you could fit that narrative in, but otherwise, I don't think it's a good choice.</p>
<p>Interesting that the issue seems focused around whether it will work or not, rather than the ethics of the action.</p>
<p>The point of the SAT essay is to see how students can write, without editing by others, without a lot of time. To essentially memorize and slightly adapt an existing essay (that had a lot more time put into it), under the pretense that you wrote it from scratch in the allotted time, is cheating.</p>
<p>if it comes down to ethics go for it
the world isn't entirely just and using all that you have at your disposal is just human nature</p>