<p>How important do you think are essays at the top universities and ivys? especially if your stats are borderline, etc? Thanks!</p>
<p>Extremely important - especially in gauging whether or not an applicant may belong at a particular school (learning philosophy, emerging persona,etc.). </p>
<p>'Topcollege, try to get your mind off of the Chicago issue. Coming to this website will likely only increase your anxieties and I think the WAMC thread was bad enough. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>After you qualify on academic measures, EC's and essays are very important in selecting who among the top applicants are to be admitted.</p>
<p>Large public universities are more numbers driven.</p>
<p>I think the importance of essays are important and all, but I think you have to have the median SAT score first to be looked at seriously. And the lower 25% is like where the essays that saved people would be at.</p>
<p>I think it makes orbreaks only in a tie situation </p>
<p>Acc. to the ex-dean of Harvard admissions
96% of appicants, essay doesnt have much impact
2% helps them
2% hurts them</p>
<p>ye unfortunately I fall in the lower 25-40% for most of my schools. Do you think they will help if I write them well, etc/</p>