<p>I need some more eyes to look at it because the only trustworthy English teacher at my school just retired (seriously, the only other English teacher that I know spent most of last year in a mental hospital, and his class consisted of him telling us answers on our assignments). </p>
<p>I need some brutal editors that can also give me an idea of the holistic "feel" of my essay. It's for the main Common App part of my app, with a topic of my choosing.</p>
<p>PM me if you want to</p>
<p>i'll take a read but i won't be able to get it back to you until tomorrow.</p>
<p>I PM'd you sgtpepper08, thanks! I appreciate the offer michael92, but I feel more comfortable asking already admitted people to help me out. I hope you understand where I'm coming from :-).</p>
<p>I was also accepted early; I'd be happy to read it!</p>
<p>haha no problem!</p>
<p>PM it to me. SCEA admit and bored :D quite a brutal critic.
Leave your email so i can send you the thing after i finish.</p>
<p>WishyWashy and confused_vnese, is there any chance you could PM me your email addresses? Me essay is too long to be PM'd unless I split it up...that's one of the things I need help with actually - trimming it down, hehe</p>
<p>Of course, I'm sure there's many other things that are wrong with it....gahhh, Yale makes me feel so inadequate :-D</p>
<p>how many words?? is it the optional one? i also have the same problem!! (around 700 words for a 500 word essay!)</p>
<p>I'll look at it. I was accepted scea so I won't be in your pool.</p>
<p>whoa your english teacher sounds interesting.</p>
<p>my essay for the commonapp (not the supplement) is well over 800 words (ahhh!) and I really can't find much more to trim out without the essay being compromised (in my eyes at least). I know there was a big thread about whether or not the main essay could/should be over 500 words, but I definitely don't want to push it all the way past 800. </p>
<p>My supplement essay isn't exactly finished yet (I live life on the edge, hehe), but I don't expect to go over 500 words. </p>
<p>grc061390--I'll pm you</p>
<p>My Common App essay was ~850 words. They don't give you a definite number for that but as long as it is interesting, I think you'll be fine. However, your Suppl must be ~500 as per the directions.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks for the info. My supplement will definitely be under 500 words (~420 right now).</p>
<p>are your supplementary essays (500 words TOPS) 2 pages long???? mine is :s</p>
<p>bump 10char: is it ok for my essay to be 2 pages long?? (ok, 10 char was not needed)</p>
<p>I did mine single-spaced so it all fit on one paper. But if it is double-spaced, I presume that it will take up two pages.</p>
<p>My supplement is right at 1/2 page (420 words) and my main essay is exactly one page long at 863 words (with some slightly modified margins so there wouldn't be a single line on page 2). Both are single spaced. I get the feeling that 2 pages double spaced is perfectly fine, but then again, I'm applying too so what do I know. :-)</p>