<p>well, i was also bored yesterday and wrote an essay, but instead of taking the normal route for an essay, i sort of wrote a dialogue instead. is this, i dont know, allowed? ill pm the essay if anyone wants, but first is it legal hahah..</p>
<p>and funny thing, i edited it twice without word counting it, it came out to 500 exactly.</p>
<p>I think a dialog may relieve the boredom the admission officers must face reading all the usual type of essays. It could be fun for them and get you noticed!</p>
<p>Getting to exactly 500 is about as excting as getting to exactly 491 or any other number. :-)</p>
<p>i just thought it was funny because i looked at it and was like, eh thats about 500. and it was lol.</p>
<p>does anyone want to rate it?</p>
<p>can i read it?</p>
<p>I'll edit it for grammar and stuff, but I probably won't be able to help any other way.</p>
<p>An "essay" is an open-ended term for a written piece, in a college app. </p>
<p>My D is a creative type, and thus for 2 of her "essays" she went the creative route. One was a "diary" of a 4 year period in her life when an awakening of sorts occured for her; the second was a fictitious article written in a fictitious magazine (labled as such), "interviewing" her about a project she devoted much time to, and won a national award for. So while the "interview" and "magazine" weren't "real" the information she provided about herself and her project were.</p>
<p>She was accepted into a top LAC, a reach for her, but her 1st choice.</p>
<p>IF you're creative, the essay portion is a golden opportunity to shine. Go for it.</p>
<p>yeah the interview thing is sort of what i did also, it never happened, but i wrote about real-life things. and congrats to your daughter.</p>
<p>Yea, I did a creative essay for Harvey Mudd, a poem actually made up of rhyming couplets. It was pretty ridiculous but it described some of my more eccentric and random factoids about myself, and I think it was appreciated, so...</p>
<p>thank you very much to those who have read my essay and helped with your comments, anyone else want to read?</p>
<p>I'll read.</p>
<p>me too
thanks</p>
<p>I'll read it.</p>
<p>Regardless of the style, does the essay tell the adcom something about yourself that the rest of the application doesn't include? Think of it as "me, me, me." Think of it as one of the few times that being self-centered is OK.</p>
<p>go ahead and pm me.</p>
<p>AlanArch: yeah its about me, albeit in a somewhat creative way. i start with an annoying reporter question :do you have any friends" and instead turn it into how i met my friends, through a creative research project.</p>
<p>Can I read it?</p>
<p>Creative essays are a gamble. If you do them wrong, make them too silly, w/e then it can backfire on you. But if you can do it right, creativity not only makes the "essay" interesting but makes you look interesting as well.</p>