<p>I remember my son's essay for UVA. I think there may have been more than one, but I distinctly remember that he wrote how he hated instant messaging because of how meaningless the conversations were. He included examples. It was the day the application was due and he was running out of steam as was I with my threats.</p>
<p>You are funny..and I bet your children are, too. Like your screenname although I might like Fundingfather's better.</p>
<p>Faline, thank you if you meant that for me.</p>
<p>Yeah, they are funny. I could tell you some stories...</p>
<p>Best of luck.
'Nudduh</p>
<p>yes I did mean that for you...and you have to be as old as I am to have a hello mudda, hello fadda, here I am at Camp Granada running around in your mind from AM radio days...somehow your name hooks into this neuron circle for me</p>
<p>Yeah, the same thing happened to me as Apple17's kid. I'm totally freaked out on what colleges will think when they compare my crappy SAT essay with my polished app. essay. And how do I solve this problem?</p>
<p>Well, colleges aren't really looking much at the SAT writing portion right now. And they know you only have 25 min. You should be fine. You would really only have to worry if you had both a crappy SAT essay and a crappy app. essay.</p>
<p>Though I think the SAT essay is a really stupid idea, so I may be going more off my own opinion than what colleges really think...</p>
<p>Man I wish I had seen that earlier.</p>
<p>That was a great link.</p>
<p>I dont know, with my main essay, I tended to start off with what the author said was good...then would go onto the cliche details of what i was discussing.</p>
<p>meh.</p>