<p>What if I were to pretend that at one point I was extremely obese and write an essay about how I fought it? They couldn't know if it were true. I could do the same thing for annorexia. Do you think they'd buy it/would it be wise?</p>
<p>Nobody cares.........what you write and how you sign it are on you.</p>
<p>haha be like , i was addicted to nacho cheese and donuts, and yea sum alcohol to get a lil tipsy before homework.</p>
<p>I really wasn't planning on writing this because I have a pretty solid idea (true one) for when I do this but I was just wondering how many BSed essays colleges receive.</p>
<p>thousands.....upon thousands.</p>
<p>hey if you can write a moving story go for it why not; i wrote a true story just bc it was a very good unusual family story</p>
<p>on my SAT essay,the prompt was : 'is success luck or hard work'
i wrote about my fake uncle in NYC who was a recovering alcoholic and who lived in the ghetto and landed an internship with donald trump, and how he is now has a great job within the trump organization.... got me a 12</p>
<p>you really think being obese or having an eating disorder is going to be your hook?</p>
<p>yay for overcoming adversity. except that you have no idea what real adversity is. liar.</p>
<p>"I really wasn't planning on writing this"</p>
<p>so no. </p>
<p>In my state, we have to take these stupid stupid achievement tests that ask things like what planet comes after mars and what year did columbus sail the ocean blue. There was an essay part too, which i had major fun with. I think I ended up being a Ukranian immigrant raising my neighboors kids while starting up my own christmas tree farm or something like that. A lot of people wrote their's in other languages (some real, some not).</p>
<p>Can you write admissions essays in, say, Spanish? Would they read them?</p>
<p>Cheap tricks are especially annoying to admissions.</p>
<p>That's a great idea. I'm gonna write one of my HSPA essays in Spanish since that test isn't important.</p>
<p>also, it doesnt matter how many BSed essays the colleges get, because it is not the content that matters, it is your personality that they are trying to gather. if you are going to change something, better change your mindset, not your story. good essays might still suggest that you are not a good match to {insert ivy}'s culture. [rude comment edited out]</p>
<p>ok, but i can teach you some cool down techniques so you don't get so mad over nothing.</p>
<p>Those would most likely be lousy essays even if they were true. The "overcoming adversity" essay is the most overused approach in the book.</p>
<p>College essays don't have to be soap opera scripts. Write about something cool you enjoy doing. Doesn't have to be grandiose. Just let them see you has an energetic, engaged teenager who would add something positive to a campus community.</p>
<p>martini is sorta right, but sometimes it DOES matter about the content
if you try to bs about having a tragedy in your life, or having to overcome some really major adversity, there's a chance you could pull it off and it'd get you in somewhere. but then you'd be messing with ur own conscience, integrity, and really screwing over somebody who actually HAD to overcome the adversity that you are writing about</p>
<p>just my two cents</p>
<p>I was obese once an am extremely offended by your suggestion...I fully recommend you use it</p>
<p>logisticswizard: lol. i gues the whole application process is getting to me.</p>
<p>^^that SAT essay was brilliant</p>
<p>I wish I thought of that. (I mean, might as well have fun, right?)</p>
<p>if u crap... then content will kill u
Ur topic doesnt have to be such rastic adversity that its groundbreaking. It should show what kinda person u are</p>
<p>come to think of it........after writing all those essays for my apps.....i now feel that i should have written a plain old story that just depicted a part of my personality.......instead of giving them something that changed my life, inspired me, etc..
And when it comes to lying in essays, exaggerating content to a point is Okay....what matters is that you don't exaggerate urself...ur personality.
colleges just want to know U thru ur essay and not what happened around U. So even if you say that.........I once caught a blue whale and let it go......they'll know that you're a kind person, even though in reality you just caught a small fish in the pond!</p>
<p>Now, I feel that I lied in my essay. I actually kinda wrote about a project I made for a competition but backed off on the last moment after discovering that I would lose to another project (I didnt want to lose). Then on the competition day, the project that I thought would win got disqualified because it was stolen, and this meant that I could have easily won coz all the other projects sucked. So, I felt frustrated and vowed that from now I will not lose hope and at least try....blah blah blah......
I only exaggerated the last part saying that the project got disqualified.
Hope the adcoms take it......</p>