<p>I really hate my common app essay, which I guess screws me over big time. I'm afraid to reread my other essays just yet... they are all probably just terrible. </p>
<p>Anyone else panicking?</p>
<p>I did/have/am. Blah.</p>
<p>What does common app essay mean?</p>
<p>Common app personal statement...</p>
<p>ahhh yeah i'm rereading my UC personal statement..its not as good as it thought it was when i submitted it :(</p>
<p>all of my "why" essays suck. they all look like this</p>
<p>blahblahblahblah</p>
<p>My common app essay is the best that I've ever read, actually. </p>
<p>No, really. I did reread about 500 times. I'm convinced my "why" essays could've been better though. Submitted about 15 minutes after midnight on the deadline date...</p>
<p>"My common app essay is the best that I've ever read, actually."</p>
<p>Lol... that doesn't help. I'm glad you're happy with your main essay though!</p>
<p>I dislike mine and I haven't even finished it yet. I keep starting and stopping, starting and stopping. I think I've found what I want to write about but I can't seem to write something I like.</p>
<p>My Vassar supplemental essay isn't only going to get me rejected - it'll get me blacklisted.</p>
<p>I'm not rereading mine. Ignorance is bliss</p>
<p>I blew my MIT essay. It asked what are your aspirations, and I dodged the question. Now, I see what they want to see from the website, and I can't believe how much I screwed myself. Maybe I should have applied RD, when I had a better sense of what I wanted to do with my life. Whatever.</p>
<p>I'm regretting my UChicago essay now. The other ones I'm regretting in advance.</p>
<p>I'm not rereading mine. Ignorance is bliss</p>
<p>^^word i dont want to worry about my essay. i already found mistakes in my app. I don't want to worry about anything else.</p>
<p>I'm not reading mine... at least not until the summer. And if I get rejected, I'll delete the essays, lol, or print them out and put them to a flame (fire is always more satisfying).</p>
<p>*<strong><em>ed up--in the last sentence of my 6th essay for Wake i called them GWU. *</em></strong></p>
<p>Anyone actually re-read their essays and wind up thinking that they were better than they thought?</p>
<p>I accidentally used the wrong word in one of my supplemental essays (that I used for Amherst, Middlebury, and Princeton) and wrote "grave intrusions on other people's intellectual property" when I meant to say "intellectual territory". I doubt anyone else would have a problem with the sentence, but it continues to bother me. I think this is a sign that I need to start letting go of things. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>(I even corrected the Word document despite already having mailed the essay. You know, just for my own satisfaction.)</p>
<p>HAHAHA, oh GOD! </p>
<p>The thought JUST occured to me as I was reading "WILL I GET INTO HARVARD, PRINCETON OR YALE?!" chance me threads. I was about to open a new thread titled "Anyone write a completely whimsical essay on absolutely NOTHING?" or something of the sort... lol. Basically meaning onset of the panic that my essay will not be of any value to me in the admissions process at all and I won't get in anywhere...</p>
<p>I DID! (write a completely whimsical essay on absolutely NOTHING)</p>
<p>I re-read my essay, and now I know I'm not getting in... I didn't write about me at all. I mean, if the adcoms want to go with their highlighters and analyze some metaphors in my essay that wind forever, sure, they may pick up a little detail here or there.</p>
<p>I REALLY hope they read the essays to learn whether you are a good writer. But even in that case, my writing was really wordy and needed a lot of condensing. Desperately!</p>
<p>And what scares me is that when I corrected other people's essays, they were all BRILLIANT writers in terms of style and CREATIVE in terms of content. Whereas I was wordy and dull and indirect... :( Bye bye, college.</p>