<p>Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could critique and/or proofread my essay for Harvard's additional essay. If you are willing to do so, please comment below or PM me!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m willing to help out!</p>
<p>This isn’t like a peer review in a high school English class – your Harvard supplemental essay, if you choose to submit one, is way too important for that. Seasoned adults will be reading your essays looking for glimpses of your “character.” That’s an old fashioned word; it means the way you develop your inner qualities: intellectual passion, maturity, social conscience, concern for community, tolerance, inclusiveness and love of learning. </p>
<p>You should share your essay with the teacher’s who are writing your recommendation letters, as Admissions Officers look for your teachers to reinforce and confirm the “character” projected in a student’s essay. Successful applicants submit materials that are in sync!</p>
<p>If you don’t want to show your essay to your teachers, please share them with several adults in your life that you admire and respect (not your parents). Ask them: “Does this sound like me?” “Does this essay convey who I am?” If they answer yes, then you nailed it. </p>
<p>It’s also not a good idea to share your essays on CC because another applicant could inadvertently, or on purpose, steal your idea or concept and use it in their essay. It can lead to plagiarism or, at best, collaboration, which colleges consider to be cheating.</p>
<p>You may, of course, ignore my advice completely and ask random strangers on an internet forum what they think. The danger, however, is that you may get ten, fifteen or twenty differing opinions, some of them from 13 year-olds on this board, and all of that will leave you very confused. For what it’s worth, my advice is not to do it.</p>
<p>Oops gibby, I already sent out my essay to several people. I did check their stats like dwangus651 said though. I don’t have any teachers that can read them for me right now, which is why I wanted to ask some people on here. Hmm… can I no longer use my essay? D: and dwangus651, I looked at your thread and you were asking others to critique yours. Do you want to swap?</p>