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I’m only trying to be safe. If anyone else is willing to read my essay, I’d really appreciate it."</p>
<p>To be safe, don’t show your essay to other people.</p>
<p>For virtually anyone who is good enough to be applying to top 25 schools, it’s a bad idea to have others review your essay. You’re likely to get bad advice from well meaning, but misinformed others, who’ll cause you to eliminate from your essay the type of distinctive voice and risks that top college admissions officers love to see.</p>
<p>You’re also likely to have your work stolen by lazy cheaters. Some may even steal your essay and sell it to a business that sells essays.</p>
<p>It’s better to risk things like a few grammatical errors or typos than to risk sending in a mediocre essay or a duplicate essay because you lacked confidence in yourself</p>
<p>The admissions officers at the very top colleges aren’t looking for good copy editors, so they aren’t going to reject you if there are a few typos or misspellings in your essay (though of course you should do your best to proofread carefully). They know that in college, you can learn to hone your grammar, but colleges can’t teach a person intellectual passion.</p>
<p>Colleges are looking for interesting, intelligent students with good critical thinking skills and the boldness and confidence to let their writing reflect their personality and passions. </p>
<p>Such students are hard to find, and outsiders may suggest that you eliminate the very things from your writing that indicate you’re exactly what such admissions offices are seeking.</p>