<p>I would appreciate it if some of you from class 2011(graduating this year) can post the college essays on the application you submitted to schools.</p>
<p>also, it would be really nice if you can tell us the school to which the essay is submitted. this will be of a lot of help:)</p>
<p>if we post something, you will just copy it. essays are personal and unique to each person. by viewing ours, your essay loses the personal element.</p>
<p>This is probably the 2nd most awful idea I’ve ever heard of.</p>
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<p>Your low post count isn’t helping your case.</p>
<p>I actually think being able to see other people’s essays is a good idea…if nothing else, because I think most people don’t get how informal and personal college essays can get. So many kids I’ve helped with essays are stuck in this idea that college essays have to be very formalized and proper and structured. Certainly, always be conscious that you are selling yourself (like how in analytical papers you are selling an idea), but the format is very free-form.</p>
<p>You might want to politely PM current class of 2011-ers and ask them to share their essays privately. Some might agree and some might not.</p>
<p>Honestly, a really good essay will be so intensely personal it will be very, very hard to steal it and make it look like your own.</p>
<p>There’s a thread in the UChicago subforum where a lot of people have posted their UChicago essays.</p>
<p>UChicago essays are highly idiosyncratic, though (and way too many people affect an “educated” voice that’s pretentious in retrospect). They’re only marginally useful for help in the standard “tell me about yourself” essays.</p>