My teacher have read it and they said its very good, etc. But somehow I dont trust what they say too much seeing how I got rejected ED.
<li>Should I pay to have one of the essay editing sites read it?</li>
<li>The main common app essay is done but I have alot of supplemental essays to do. What should I do about them? Should I just edit them myself? It’d be a pain for me to go ask the teachers every other day to read a different supplemental app.</li>
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<p>Imnsvho, emphatically not.</p>
<p>First of all, the essay is supposed to be "your work" and what the essay services do step considerably over the line of making comments, suggestions, copyediting...I would say "rewrite" is what they do.</p>
<p>Last year a student revised his essay here on-line several times and then sent it off to essayedge.com. By a vast majority, readers who saw the version that came back thought that essayedge made it worse, not better. As I recall,problems included trite phrasing, a muddied structure, etc. If you go to the Old Board, you can probably search for that thread.</p>
<p>I don't know where you got rejected ED from but if it were one of the Ivies or Chicago or someplace like that, it might be a mistake to think the essay is what did it. Remember, at Yale they could fill out three complete classes from their applicants and have no discernable difference.</p>
<p>Absolutely not.</p>
<p>No way, no how, never never, uh uh.</p>
<p>Read a good book on college essays, like Harry Bauld's</p>
<p>NO WAY JOSE</p>
<p>I second reading Harry Bauld's On Writing The College Application Essay. Great book.</p>
<p>To begin with, everybody has to write an essay. It's meant to compare the maturity of your writing along with how profound you think. However, the college admissions people know you're not that good, and when they see a splendid paper, they start to think, "wow, this person must have had a little bit of help." That's just the way it happens. And the truth is, you will have had help. If you're not happy with your writing, then you'll just have to deal with it because there's nothing else you can do about it. And besides, they understand that everybody applying is a teenager. Writing overly deep writing is suspect too, because you can't have a "life-changing experience" when you're only 17 or 16. Even if you have had some, you should probably not word it so that it seems as if you've been greatly changed.</p>
<p>I'm really sorry you got rejected ED. Getting rejected definitely sucks. But the fact is it wasn't your essay. There are actually a lot of people in the country who are as strong or stronger than you academically or in "special" categories. I hope you have better luck in the future.</p>
<p>I third reading the book. Read "'A' is for Admission" too for general stuff.</p>
<p>Have parents, peers, CCers edit them. It's free and it's very helpful.</p>