<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>It sounds very creative but from what I know, the SAT essay is very forumlaic and graded thusly.</p>
<p>I would play it safe and stick with a regular construction. Also, a narrative might not leave enough time for the rest of the essay, spending the time on body development might be more rewarding.</p>
<p>But thats just me, you probably want a second opinion.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses.
I know it's not guaranteed for every topic, but I did design my college essay to cover a lot of ground since I wanted it to cover a lot of different schools' topics.
I guess I really should just stick with the safe methods though.</p>