<p>Now that my application is in and I read over my essays again, I can't help but think that they plain old suck. I really thought they were good when I wrote them though...anyone else feel the same?</p>
<p>lol yeah me too!</p>
<p>yup, my essays are BLAHHHHHHH...although i was afraid of that when i sent them in...</p>
<p>I know the feeling. I keep thinking I forgot something or made a mistake somewhere..</p>
<p>i feel it, though i'm glad i sent them in because i think i was getting to the point where more editing would hurt rather tahn help</p>
<p>...every minute of every day....</p>
<p>By the end it felt like the old "how many angels can fit on the head of a pin?" I edited them to death. I still read some of the lines and just don't like the way they sound. Maybe I've just read them too many times.</p>
<p>-Ender</p>
<p>I had the exact same feeling today. I was going through these boards looking at and judging posted essays and then I looked at mine and thought, wow, were these written by a ten-year-old?</p>
<p>Essays for Stanford or just in general?</p>
<p>-Ender</p>
<p>Actually, what I did was write them for Stanford and I've pawned my others off of that. That's my tip: Do them for your first choice school and shape your other applications from the work that you know is your best.</p>
<p>Yeah, I did the same. </p>
<p>I was asking about the essays you read. I haven't really seen many around here, though I'm not sure I know exactly where to look.</p>
<p>-Ender</p>
<p>Oh, right. Um, click the "search this forum" thing and type in essays. The parents forum also has a lot.</p>
<p>I don't think mine are terrible, but I feel they could have been alot better. I ended up doing them the weekend before the app was due, ugh. If you ever find yourself in this situation though, here's what worked for me- whenever an idea comes to mind, be sure to jot it down. This means keep a paper a pencil and lamp at your bedside, haha. I came up with some of my best ideas while thinking before falling asleep. Anyway, I did a lot of editing but found one mistake when I read the long one over a couple of days ago, and also two or three spots that would have sounded much smoother had they been worded a little differently.</p>
<p>Oh well!
Good luck everyone.</p>
<p>I had pre-application essay doubts, i couldn't even do anything!!! :(</p>
<p>They. Suck.</p>
<p>I never thought my essays were great. Looking back on them now, I guess they're decent. I'm a reasonably good writer, but it's not like I wrote something dazzling and amazingly captivating. You can only do so well at some level, so I guess I did the best I could. In the end, the essay is only part of the entire application so it's not as if it decides my admission fate by itself.</p>
<p>The best thing to do is not to read them over again. Ignorance is bliss. :)</p>
<p>I think by the time everyone has submitted their essays they're so fed up with rewrites. I read mine over again...winced...moved on...I liked them a couple weeks ago! I don't think many people love themselves after the college process...</p>