<p>Did anyone here submit to Oprah's HS Essay Contest? Have you heard back?</p>
<p>I sent in my essay; haven't heard anything yet...</p>
<p>lol...the Oprah Contest. She won't give away any of her black money.</p>
<p>I did it and haven't heard a thing back.....i'm hoping to hear even a "no" sometime soon :)</p>
<p>hahahaha..............."black money"</p>
<p>why did you have to mention black?</p>
<p>Hey hey...no racism here! lol Yea I submitted mine...I'm hoping it made it on time. I dropped in the box on Saturday the 4th...so it woulda gotten picked up Monday the 6th...would it have gotten postmarked the 6th too? I'm dyin'.</p>
<p>if it wasn't marked on Sat. then it def. went on Monday</p>
<p>I sent in an essay. I haven't heard back, and apparently no one on the Oprah book club message board has either. I wonder what's going on.</p>
<p>yeah, i entered too and haven't heard anything... i bet they got more entries than expected. the official rules said all winners will be determined by the 16th if i remember correctly.</p>
<p>Yeah and the prize trip was scheduled for the 26th and 27th. </p>
<p>Hopefully they are just still sifting through entries. I thought mine was really good :-( lol I just wanna hear back yes or no. anything!</p>
<p>How were they planning on contacting the winners anyhow?</p>
<p>yeah its seems weird. im just curious though...did any of you put your name on the essay? the rules specified nothing about putting your name on the paper, and everything except the title and footnotes/bibliography would be counted towards the total word count...so wouldnt the entry paper/parental consent form be sufficient so they know its your paper? jw bc my brother did this contest and is freaked about it.</p>
<p>I didn't put my name on it...you'd hope that the judges are at least smart enough to keep packets together :p</p>
<p>they contact the winners via the supplied parental e-mail address...perhaps we all ought to hound our parents? :D</p>
<p>I put my name on it...is that bad?</p>
<p>yo yo anyone out there. lol</p>
<p>lol...and i lied</p>
<p>I put my name into a header bc I was worried that they would separate the pages/lose it, etc.</p>
<p>is it bad we put our names on it though?</p>
<p>hopefully not...I'm hoping that we all on this thread win the contest so we can meet each other :)</p>
<p>omg i hope so. i want this so bad. blood, sweat, and tears went into the essay. lol. i made all the english teachers cry with my essay.</p>
<p>it was so hard to know what to write about. what did u write about?</p>
<p>no kidding it was hard...that essay just begged to get the typical, "we should never forget the holocaust bc it was a dark, bad time" blah blah blah...</p>
<p>no one cried about mine, so congrats on that, I bet yours is fabulous :)</p>
<p>mine was about the endurance of humanity and that that was what the book was really about</p>