<p>I just want an opinion on how long you all are making your essays for the exeter applications given the limited space we have...</p>
<p>Are you all just making it one paragraph?</p>
<p>LOL. See, what I'm doing is writing almost full-length essays and planning to draw miniscule lines in pencil onto the paper using a ruler and then populating those lines with my essays. I don't want to have to reduce my essays to tiny chunks of text! As long as I can write small enough, it'll fit and my thoughts will be in their entirety. I hope they won't mind! Compacting my essays into one paragraph would kill me and my message.</p>
<p>ha I was just gonna be lazy and do about 200-300 words each
now you make me feel bad.... </p>
<p>I guess I got tough competition D=</p>
<p>Paha yeah, tough competition, we'll see about that...</p>
<p>Well the thing is that you're probably supposed to do them that short and that the essays are supposed to show the adcom your ability to follow directions and write succinctly. But for me, screw that, I'm going to express myself no matter how tiny I have to write. If they don't like it, well, that's too bad for me then.</p>
<p>Then again, maybe the length doesn't really matter. Maybe it's just easier to keep track of the essays if they're all on their own easily identifiable sheets, i.e. not separate lined paper... I don't know.</p>
<p>Same here Cat....Im done writing it. I swear I drew some smaaaaall lines. I followed instructions though. Fit everything on that paper.</p>
<p>I know, no matter how much I end up writing IT IS GOING ON THAT ONE PAPER. Even if the reader has to use a magnifying glass to read it... haha nahhh mine aren't thaaat long...</p>
<p>so do you think one paragraph essays would be the norm? my handwritings huge, plus I'm just at the end of my aplications and I feel like I've been running a marathon, so I lack the enthusiasm to write that much ><</p>
<p>Good luck to you over achievers anyways xD</p>
<p>Haha watch you get in and me get rejected</p>
<p>I'm not exactly sure that they would be the norm but I guess I would advise you to keep your responses somewhat short (although I did nothing of the sort) especially since you have large handwriting. But you must be able to write smaller if you put your mind to it, right? And as for your lack of enthusiasm, think about how much you want to get into your schools and give those essays your all. In the end, they might be important!</p>
<p>Blind leading the blind, but hey, what negative impact can raising the bar have on applicants? At least we're worried we're not doing enough rather than sitting back complacently having written mediocre essays having had no guiding body behind them. Maybe the fact that we all have such high expectations of ourselves contributes to the fact that a lot of CC users ultimately get into great schools - we all mislead each other into thinking we're inadequate</p>
<p>Haha very true TomTheCat.</p>
<p>I didn't even draw lines! eek! :D</p>
<p>You don't need to, I just can't write straight lol</p>
<p>Haha. Yeah, I'm so over this whole process. I don't want to do it again till college.</p>
<p>Ya same....I have to go to school tomorrow. I just want ot sleep until march 10th, wake up...then I can go to school. Knowing I won't have to come back to my boring private school anymore lol.</p>
<p>Haha yeah. I'm at a public school. :D</p>
<p>Ya...the schools alright but its boring, been with the same people since I was 4 lol. It gets weird..</p>
<p>how many words are you writing for each? is it okay if one essay is 800 words and another is 400? Will they care?</p>
<p>Doubt it.....</p>
<p>As long as they are both descriptive and well-written, I doubt that length will be an issue, long or short.</p>
<p>Um... what if I can fit 2200 words on each side of the Exeter essay paper? It's still neat and everything (but in cursive).</p>
<p>.. wow! that's, er, rather impressive. just make sure it's eligible? :)</p>