<p>Is it common/encouraged to submit more than one writing sample? I have two or three essays that are very different from each other- a literary analysis that's 2 pages, a human rights research paper that's 8, and a comparative political philosophy paper that's 6- and I'm having a hard time choosing just one. Would sending in 15-20 pages of writing total be considered overboard?</p>
<p>Also, my APUSH teacher never wrote comments on my papers, but the one I wrote about politics seems too good to pass up. Would submitting an essay devoid of comments hurt me in the admissions process?</p>
<p>I agree with Ghostt; 10 pages is pushing it, so 15-20 would be way too much. I think 5-6 would be a good length, since that’s a pretty average essay, and gives readers plenty of pages to see your strengths and weaknesses.</p>
<p>I say submit one with comments. The human rights paper might be a good choice here (8 isn’t too too much), since 2 is a little short imo.</p>
<p>I agree- I submitted a 5 page comparison of two poems. It had a moderate amount of comments from my teacher but they were positive comments, which are always good to include. 3 different papers made up of 15-20 pages is far too much.</p>
<p>Submit a paper with comments (what good is a paper without comments as a graded writing sample?) and, as Ghostt said, keep it brief. I submitted a four page literary analysis of a section from Heart of Darkness so…</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone. Nearly every paper (aside from the two I already mentioned) I wrote in junior year was 8-10 pages, so it looks like my human rights research paper is the best option.</p>
<p>Every essay you wrote junior year was 8-10 pages? That’s (at least in my experience) weird, lol. But yes, it sounds like you are correct in your choice.</p>
<p>It sounds weird, but it’s because the majority of the essays I wrote in my junior year were timed writes- my AP teachers love to remind us that we can’t type our essays the night before an actual AP test. They only assigned research papers as semester finals or long-term projects, so those were necessarily on the longer side. Go figure.</p>