<p>Does anyone else dislike their essays now that they look at them again, now several months removed from the application process?</p>
<p>I find the only essay I really like is the one that I used on the Common App; I'm not too pleased with everything else.</p>
<p>I refuse to revisit my essays, because I know I'll find something jarring and blame my entire decision on one imperfection. I prefer to hang on to the memory of liking them when I submitted them in the first place. Plus, I typically hate everything I write three months after I've written it; things can always be better. </p>
<p>For me the essays are done, finished, sent, and will probably never be revisted again.</p>
<p>heh.. i disliked my essays from the moment i wrote them.</p>
<p>me too.</p>
<p>the only time i ever went back to them was when i had to recycle essays for something new.. like a specific scholarship..</p>
<p>did you all write your essays the summer before your senior year or right before they were due?</p>
<p>I dislike my essays .... stanford's deadline was Dec 15th therefore my essays werent that good except for the roommate one... also I dont like the fact that we didnt get interviews, usually I do very well on the interviews but hopefully my recs pull up the slack, I hear stanford puts a lot of emphasis on recs</p>
<p>No, my Stanford essays were probably the best of the lot. harvard was the worst :D</p>
<p>I agree w/ laurak... I plan to delete all evidence of them as soon as I get my decision, good or bad. I know I'm gonna find something I don't like or some dumb mistake and obsess over it. :)</p>
<p>Stanford 1000 word essay....all about surfing.....i loved writing it</p>
<p>^ if you get in you can sell your essays on gradesaver.com for $50 each (or $25), i'm not sure right now. Actually, i'm not sure about the web address either...lol but i do remember that there is a website willing to buy the essays of people who get into top schools.</p>
<p>omg that's awesome. now i want to get in even more. :D</p>
<p>how would they know if you got in</p>
<p>good point.</p>
<p>LOL. </p>
<p>i wrote a few essays at the very beginning of the year.. ended up changing it drastically and mostly using essays i wrote during winter break!! (for schools with jan 1 deadlines at least)</p>
<p>Stanford, I spent about a week on the essays.. whatever, the content was good and true.. i'm happy with it, just that the wording and packaging was pretty bad..</p>
<p>wrote my surfing stanford essay while in the new york public library while on a work trip with dad...</p>
<p>Ok I found the link:</p>
<p>They give you $25 for your essays; however, I'm guessing you have to send them a copy of your admission letter too.</p>
<p>No you don't. About the copy of your admission letter. I sent them my Stanford essay, told them it worked for Stanford, and I got $50. </p>
<p>For all my essays...I wrote them the day they were due...Yeah, I'm a procrastinator...lol.</p>
<p>I spent the entire summer slaving over countless drafts...only to write an entirely new essay a week before the application was due!!!!</p>
<p>I hate it when things like that happen.</p>
<p>It's a crap deal. The essays become the sole property of gradesaver. I value my essays (however bad they may be) at more than $25.</p>
<p>Also gradesaver say there is no guarantee they will accept your essay, and hence you wouldn't be paid. But how would you know if they took your essay, put it on their database but told you they didn't want it?</p>
<p>i didn't like the main essay i wrote, but the short answers that i wrote rocked so hard....i remember it being hard for me to find a pic that i could write well about</p>