<p>I feel like I'll be a Tufts Syndrome reject for not showing enough interest if I don't opt to do the optional essay on the supplement, but I have absolutely no time to write a good one. Do you think that Tufts will think I'm not interested in them if I don't do the essay? I really want to go there and they're one of my top choices...</p>
<p>yea i'd like to know the answer to that question as well...</p>
<p>If you don't think you can write a good essay than don't because optional means optional, so if you aren't going to add anything to your application, don't write it.</p>
<p>I'm just starting my college essays (I'm the greatest procrastinator EVER) but I'm still going for the optional essays. you can never say that you have showed everything about yourself in a college app, there's always something to add. and admission ppl won't mind learning more about you, even if it's through a badly styled essay.</p>
<p>my brother didnt submit an optional essay, he had a 3.97 but like a 1200 sat and he's graduating this may from tufts. he made dean's list about 4 times...</p>
<p>I never wrote an optional essay because I didn't feel it was necessary. But it never hurts.</p>
<p>not at all- i didn't write one and was accepted.</p>
<p>it follows the old rule: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. i felt like i had presented myself well enough in my other essays and couldn't make the optional ones sound anything but hokey. </p>
<p>they're there for just what the say they are; to present yourself better if you feel the others don't make a clear enough image.</p>
<p>Oh thank god. see my post in the other optional essay thread.</p>
<p>suffering from wicked bad application burn out...</p>