<p>So I wrote my Rice perspective essay in all sonnet form. Yeah, 3 pages of sonnets. I worked for hours on it and I just want maybe one or two Rice students to look it over and tell me if it answers the prompt/is written well. It is really hard to judge your own writing... :P</p>
<p>Rice is my dream school and I'd be beyond psyched if I got in.</p>
<p>And if you do read it, feel free to be harsh on it.</p>
<p>Im not a very good reader but i’ll take a look if you want.</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m a lurker on these forms. So I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t want to just hand out something that sounds so creative to a random person on the internet :D. But if you decide so, I’ll try and look at it critically and holistically.</p>
<p>Thanks for your offers, you guys, but I’d feel a lot more comfortable if I sent it to current Rice students or students who are already in college. You never know what could happen, you know? :P</p>
<p>How are you going to get people to prove they’re currently students at a university? Scan a picture of their student ID? Good luck with that. You should try getting help from a writing coach in real life (anyone can become as familiar with the prompt as someone who has written on it within a few minutes…), even though it’s a little late for that.</p>
<p>There is no way to “prove” it, but there are a lot of Rice students that come on here and offer advice (and have been offering it for months beforehand), so all I have to do is look at their posts to see if they are legit. I doubt anybody would waste months or years of their lives pretending to be in college just so they can plagiarize someone’s college applications. For what it is worth, I have showed it to a former Stanford admissions officer and a very reputable college counselor (as well as my dad, who went to Stanford and Harvard). I just thought it would be nice to have an insider’s perspective on it because I have no idea how Rice will view something like this.</p>
<p>^ Hmmm, no one here or even any one person in Rice admissions can tell you how Rice will view something like this. So stick with your gut and feedback you have gotten. Students know nothing about how “Mr Jones” will perceive your application. And even if Mr Jones would like it, he’s not the one reading your application today, instead it is Mrs Smith and she thinks it is awful. So just submit what feels right for you. It is also such a very tiny part of your overall application that it likely will not make or break the admissions decision.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I guess that’s true. And regardless, I probably should’ve posted this in the essay forum. Thanks. :)</p>
<p>I am a freshman at rice, and my best advice to you is to write something that won’t bore them or be like the other tens of thousands of essays they read.</p>