<p>Hello! I was wondering how much it would hurt my chances of being admitted to JHU if i did not write the optional "10 dollar trip" essay</p>
<p>thanks for your help!</p>
<p>He has written on this topic previously:
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For applicants using the common application the two Hopkins essays on the supplement are optional but highly recommended. If you chose not to include those two answers you will not be automatically denied admission. But that information will not be included in your application review whereas it will be included with many others. </p>
<p>As others have stated before, when I school highly recommends something there is a reason they do.
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Under the Common Application guidelines it is recommended that additional essays not be required. Since we adhere to all Common Application policies, we make the additional essays optional and highly recommend them.
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<p>Do you have to do both the optional essay since i only did te 10$ one</p>
<p>thanks for your help coarranged. </p>
<p>wow. it just hit me that i pretty much wont get into JHU =( i applied for a psychology or history major.</p>
<p>when i went to their open house last fall and there was a Q and A session, the ad coms all said they really really encourage you to do the optional essays. but if you didn't do it, don't worry, plenty have gotten in without them</p>
<p>I did the $10 one but not the class one. I could have written the essay easily, but I figured since I had my common app essay, too, that writing a third would be a little much. I didn't think that it would add all that much to my application, and since I had obviously written the $10 one for JHU specifically, I had already demonstrated interest. </p>
<p>Relax. They are going to evaluate your entire application, not just which essays you chose to write.</p>
<p>As I have written in the past, we highly recommended that applicants write both of our supplemental essays. It was the choice of each applicant to do so or not to do so.</p>
<p>Not writing one or both of these essays will not lead to an automatic deny decision, but not having such information in a file will have some impact on how the Admissions committee reviews that file.</p>
<p>In the end though there is nothing you can do now, so don't worry about it.</p>
<p>but they only had one field in the common app form so i thought we had to choose! omg! Lets just hope the admission committee doesnt feel I am less interested because I honestly thought we had to choose between the 2.</p>
<p>if you felt that those essay topics wouldnt be appropriate for what you wanted to say, could you send other essays? I really wanted hopkins to know about a situation that has impacted me dearly. Hence, I wrote seperate essays. Is this okay?</p>
<p>I'm wondering if not submitting an essay is better than submitting a really terrible one? I'm sorry if this has been answered before.</p>
<p>When I visited, the admissions officer who gave the information session HIGHLY recommended that we do the two "optional" essays. He said that if we did not do them, we would still be evaluated to the fullest extent, but those without the optional essays are "put in a separate pile." </p>
<p>I did the two essays, but I am kind of disappointed because I feel my common app essay is much better than the two JHU ones, and from what my officer said, he made it sound like the common app essay wasn't as important as the other two.</p>
<p>ha ... oh boy, i'm not getting in.</p>
<p>what if you did only 1 of the two.... the second one was gay. I felt my common app one was way better.</p>
<p>Clearly the second one was homosexual.</p>
<p>It was attracted to the first one.</p>
<p>I love how fast topics go downhill. <3</p>
<p>yeah im REALLY not getting in....considering i did neither</p>
<p>after all, it's about which essay represents you better. You may have an essay that answers to both optional questions. I realize that the optional essays asked about specific qualities, but I can't understand how they could count more than the Common App essay. They're all essays, after all! And putting the non-optional-essay files in a separate pile sounds a bit discriminating to me. I really don't think this should be a factor that shows how much interest one has in JHU or how much one is suited for JHU. Ok, I may be a bit defensive, since I didn't do them. But what I wanted to emphasize is that the common app essay should not be ignored: some people may have put all their heart and personality into that essay! Anyway, this scares me. I couldn't imagine that optional essays might matter that much.</p>
<p>OK, I feel you all didn't read my previous message on this thread...go back and read it and follow my last piece of advice, "There is nothing you can do about it now, so don't worry about it."</p>
<p>More importantly I would like to clear up one thing that stems from what Icedragonad wrote:</p>
<p>"we would still be evaluated to the fullest extent, but those without the optional essays are "put in a separate pile." </p>
<p>--This is not accurate. There are no separate piles for those who write our essays and for those who don't. We review all essays students send in -- we highly recommend that students write our essays -- essays do matter a lot in the review -- but a student will not be automatically denied if they send in none of just one of the optional essays.</p>
<p>I can't say this any clearer!</p>
<p>thanks for the clear up. admissionsdaniel rocks :)</p>