<p>I find that I'm really not happy with my essays. Now, I think I have left some important points in my essay. But these important points should be combined with the previous essay so that they can give a more complete picture of who I am.</p>
<p>Can I send in polished version of essay?</p>
<p>Personally, I do not think it would look good to even ask. Everyone had the same deadline.</p>
<p>sorry nono, but what is it with you and your essays. This is your second thread wanting to change your essay. First one was that you had bad grammar and type-os and now you think the content needs to improve. You certainly can ask but I'm not sure that it is a good idea. Personally, you've the application forms have been released to edit your essays. That gave you about 4+ months.</p>
<p>@Nono,
Well, here's a different take. My daughter sent in a revised version of an essay (snail mail), and she was admitted EA. Just be yourself. If you feel that it is important to send in a revised essay, send it in. Adcoms may view this as redundant (a negative), or they may view this as attention to detail (a positive). Who knows? Who cares? If it's important to you, just do it.
My two cents.</p>
<p>That's very interesting. I want to send in another essay too to show them another side of my personality, but I've been worried about what the adcoms would think. And it's not like I slacked off in the past 4+ months ... I've just spent the time writing 8 different essays, but when I got down to the best of 2, I really didn't know which one to pick, and both essays are very different. '</p>
<p>Plus side is that it shows interest ... negative side is that they would have more to read.</p>
<p>Same situation here, but the difference is that I've already sent in 2 additional essays lol </p>
<p>I find that my previous essays were more of a laundry list that doesn't show much of a personality, but maybe I'm just being too hard on myself </p>
<p>So I really want to send another one in, plus another teacher's reference, but with the increased applicants this year, I have no clue if this would be positive or negative</p>
<p>I don't think the deciding metric here should be "what would make the admissions officers angry", but rather "what material is necessary and sufficient to present a strong, pithy, on-point application". </p>
<p>Sending extra material isn't going to make the admissions officers angry -- their job is to read the application that you craft, and they don't put a limit on the amount of supplemental information you can send. But sending too much information could make your application weaker if it doesn't all present a coherent picture. All the admissions officers know about you is what you tell them in your application. You want the Goldilocks approach: send just the right amount of information, not too little information or too much information.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, that means that you must be the final arbiter of what extra information to send. Without access to the rest of your application, we can't help much.</p>
<p>Nono: </p>
<p>I e-mailed MIT about the extra essay thing, and this is what MIT said: </p>
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Hello</p>
<p>It is significantly well passed the deadline and there is no guarantee that your essay will be read.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
MIT Admissions
[/quote]
</p>
<p>It seemed like a really cold response ... I wonder if they've already decided to reject me already. (not that I had a chance anyways) Maybe they just hate me in the first place...</p>
<p>No decisions have been made yet, but they are reading completed applications.</p>
<p>No decisions have been made yet, but they are reading completed applications.</p>
<p>You do realize MIT Admissions used "passed" instead of "past" :P</p>
<p>So does MIT's response mean that it'll do more harm than good if I send another essay in, especially with the influx of applications this year? I'm pretty sure they haven't read mine yet because I'm international, but they could just not read it and it might look bad if I send too much stuff (like I'm too obsessed or I don't know when to stop)...</p>
<p>ttyl8...</p>
<p>Well, I'm not sure. It sounds like they don't want to read any more than they have to. Their response was very different from the one that I got from Brown: </p>
<p>
[quote]
The several essays we require are, more often than not, enough for the committee to gain a picture of our applicants. If you do want to add, please mail or fax it to our office and it will be filed in your application. Please know that our office has a tremendous amount to read and often it is the required material that best provides the information we are looking for.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Brown Admission Office
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Brown seemed interested in hearing what I had to say, but MIT was almost telling me .. "NO" ... </p>
<p>I did reply to MIT's message asking them if I were to send in an extra essay how I should submit it (e-mail or snail mail) ... so that will have to wait a few days, since I got that reply from them in 3 days. If they don't reply, I'll probably hold off on an extra MIT essay. If that happens, I'll be sure to come back and tell you that, ttyl8. </p>
<p>[ul]
[li]^molliebatmit: I know they haven't made any decisions yet. I was joking when I said that they already rejected me (though they probably will in April) Say ... just as a side note ... do you take Latin? When I saw "molliebat," I thought of Latin. [/li][li]^dzxx101: LOL I saw that too in their e-mail. They seemed pretty rushed or they need to take a refresher on English 101. [/li][/ul]</p>
<p>thanks... </p>
<p>it's probably because of the significant increase in the amount of applications this year, so they're mores stressed... </p>
<p>... in that case, then it's probably best not to send in anything additional, or else, they'll be like "This person doesn't know how to control himself" or "This person doesn't have anything else to do but write essays for college admissions"</p>
<p>wait, didn't matt say we could send stuff up until late jan/early feb. </p>
<p>this is gonna mess up my schedule. ahhh.</p>
<p>he might have said you could, but doesn't mean you should, especially with so many more applications to read this year...</p>
<p>anyway, if you're planning to send "updates" that you couldn't have written/sent before the deadline, then that is probably fine, but if you want to send an additional essay that could've been written a month ago, I'm not so sure about that...</p>
<p>
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do you take Latin? When I saw "molliebat," I thought of Latin.
[/quote]
I did take Latin in high school. :) But my username is actually my MIT email address.</p>
<p>Sorry for the over-correction -- I just see people say things like that a lot around here, and I want to make sure everybody knows that no decisions have been made at this point in time.</p>
<p>What would you recommend any extra essays/updates be limited to? Is 400 words plenty? Would 800 words be too much (and I did both optional essays in the app)?</p>
<p>Also, since they said you could send "updates" or news about you, does that mean you should just "tell" what happened, and leave out how it affected you and your thoughts on it?</p>
<p>mollie, </p>
<p>what you think about sending extra essays right now? honestly, there were some things that happened in just the past couple of weeks that I would really want to convey to the adcoms through an essay. it's more than just "i won X and Y award." It was an actual event that impacted me a lot. and should i tell them this?</p>
<p>Brown's response:
The several essays we require are, more often than not, enough for the committee to gain a picture of our applicants. If you do want to add, please mail or fax it to our office and it will be filed in your application. Please know that our office has a tremendous amount to read and often it is the required material that best provides the information we are looking for.</p>
<p>"Brown seemed interested in hearing what I had to say, "</p>
<p>Sounds to me like Brown is saying they already asked for several essays and it is usually enough along, combine that with they have a tremendous amount to read and what they required is what they think has the best information. I just don't see where you think they are more interested than MIT. They were just polite. MIT was just honest without worrying about feeling.</p>
<p>I don't mean to come off harsh but I think all of us get really worked up and worried and instead of sitting tight and waiting we do something that later on we realize was probably a mistake (I have in the past). I know it is so hard to just sit and wait but that is the way it works. </p>
<p>Intel Science finalist and the like are the type of things that I think the schools need to be updated on.</p>