<p>Here's the link everyone, I feel like they're reworking it thats why its not available, but on this one theres no 217 essay, which sucks because I already wrote it. ugh :(</p>
<p>How’d you get this? Every time I go to the website it isn’t available.</p>
<p>What percent of applicants actually write it anyway?</p>
<p>What is/was the 217 essay?</p>
<p>i heard that they’re discontinuing the 217 essay.</p>
<p>tb0mb, the premise of the essay was basically to submit a page of your ‘autobiography’… i.e… page 217. or whatever it is. last year it was 300 something.</p>
<p>please submit page 217 of your 300 page autobiography.</p>
<p>@RajLon: Hahaha, i wrote one too. Oh well, you might be able to tinker with it and use it for other college apps. Unless of course, ur dead set on UPenn</p>
<p>Dammmmnnit. I’m not the HUGEST fan of the 217 essay, but some kind of creative/optional essay would have been very much appreciated. I think optional essays are only fair for students who excel at writing, especially those interested in majoring in the liberal and creative arts, to demonstrate their skills while students who excel at the sciences/mathematics can submit research abstracts. I know there’s the “Why Penn?”-esque essay, but how creative can one be with that?</p>
<p>I am quite pleased actually. If you do manage to be unique with the most common college essay ever, you win.</p>
<p>Really think hard about the Why Penn? essay. When I wrote that last year it wasn’t ALL creative, but I managed to take an aspect of the school that I was really interested in and convey my interest in it in a really campy, entertaining fashion. You can’t just slip into “I like blah, blah, blah because blah.” If you can write in a more unique manner, e.g. creatively, comparing your interest to other funny things, your history with whatever it is you’re writing out, what you expect when you get there, it’s going to be a much more interesting essay to write and read. Thinking outside of the box where it instinctively seems like you should play it formulaic-ly safe may have a solid pay off.</p>
<p>The 217 essay is hugely popular, mainly because most applicants think it’s unique. Sorry to say, but if you think you are writing something very unique on the 217 essay, it probably isn’t; more than half of the 20,000 yearly applicants write it, meaning the admissions folks have seen upwards of 100,000 217 essays in the past ten years!</p>
<p>It can be very fun, and you can get some good stuff in there, but I never really liked it since it doesn’t necessarily tell much about you as a person; it just tells about your goals. I’m a big, big fan of the risk essay.</p>
<p>^ A person’s goals says a lot about them. For example, think about the difference it can make in an application if someone writes about having a family, teaching their grandchild how to read versus someone who writes about being a bigshot businessman. </p>
<p>Thinking VERY hard about this essay. All the time. Hoping that I’ll stumble upon a good angle that I can tweak for almost every essay. I’m a history geek and a bit of a Ben Franklin-phile (I did a National History Day project on him one year, although I’m not sure if I want to draw attention to that because it was the only year I participated that I didn’t qualify for Nationals, which is actually not that hard to do in my state, so it was kind of embarrassing) but I feel like writing about Ben Franklin is very cliched.</p>
<p>Is it confirmed that Penn is ABSOLUTELY not doing pg 217?
They haven’t even posted it yet.</p>
<p>Do you not see the link?!?!?!?!</p>
<p>When i went on a tour (two days ago) an admissions officer said it would be on there</p>
<p>It would be a shame if they took the P217 out. That was my favorite.</p>
<p>I like that essay topic too actually but if it’s removed I won’t be too sad (less work :p).</p>
<p>P.S: Any idea what Penn means by “mid-August”? It’s the 20th today and they still haven’t released the supplement.</p>
<p>It’ll probably be late August. USC says the same thing about its Part II Application but someone said it’s traditionally released late in August nonetheless. Just have patience :)</p>
<p>page 217 was definitely my favorite essay of my entire college essay writing process. it was also probably my best essay that i wrote during the process as well, and what really served to help me stand out from other applicants</p>
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<p>That’s not an official posting link. If that was it, they would have already posted it on the official site for everyone to download. That is all.</p>
<p>I was also very very excited for the biography, page 217! It was interesting and sounded fun!</p>