<p>I love them! I can't believe I was able to write something that represented me so much & really showed my personality & passions. I hope they help me get in =)</p>
<p>I love going back and reading my essays! Especially because I have a fear that I had a spelling error or something…
Yea, reading them is so fun because I can’t believe I wrote them! I really liked my essays</p>
<p>This is kind of unrelated, but I went back and read one of my apps for something else and my essay sucked. However, this may also be because the limit was one page and right now I’m in the middle of writing a research paper that is 8 pages so I’m in that “explain every single thing you’re saying” mode XD. I SURE hope that the adcoms don’t think its that bad. I find out if I got in around the end of March.</p>
<p>I’m glad that you guys are really proud of your essays though!</p>
<p>i’m the exact opposite… I reread them, but I feel worse after I do because I’ll find a mistake or be reminded of a mistake.</p>
<p>Well, I definitely feel much better about my Stanford essays than my MIT essays. That’s probably why I got rejected from MIT yesterday, haha!</p>
<p>In general, I like my Common App essays a lot more. I applied EA to MIT, so I wrote my Common App essays after I had “practiced” on my MIT essays.</p>
<p>^ Me too, I honestly feel like committing suicide after rereading my essays. WARNING to Juniors: This is why you write your essays in advance and get a chance to read, read, read, and reread your essays until they are perfect</p>
<p>@soadquake981: i agree with you! i’m the type of person who writes better when the word limit is not like 200 words…so i think my commonapp essay, along with my stanford supplemental short answers are much better than the ones in my mit application…i’m not sure if that’s why i got rejected yesterday…hahaha</p>
<p>it’s not always a matter of rereading and rereading an essay, searching for grammatical errors that you’ve made. What’s more important is the topic that you have. I wrote my Stanford short essays in the span of about 2 weeks. I knew what i wanted to write about and did so. There’s not too much more I could have done beyond that. Once you convey what you’re trying to get across, what else can you do?</p>
<p>i worked on my common app essay for over a month… read it so much that I memorized it and my eyes skipped over diction mistakes and typos Word didn’t catch… so when I submitted the final version, I had some typos</p>
<p>I wrote mine the weekend before for both ED and regular.
Looking back at ED: what a disaster.
Regular … there may be some hope yet.</p>
<p>I reread my essays a lot right after I submitted them (lol, those days were horrible). I just read them again yesterday; my impression is the same–the essays are not that great, but I feel that I was able to pack enough within the characters limit.</p>
<p>EDIT: Actually, I will say that the essays are great to make me feel better >_<</p>
<p>I refuse to reread my essays. Why would I want to torture myself like that? Especially after being rejected. There must be some glaring mistake. Or else it was my best, and it still wasn’t good enough.</p>
<p>Good to know that someone loved their essays though. Good luck!</p>
<p>When writing my essays… i loved them … afterwards not so much … i know it doesnt make a difference now but would anyone like to read my essays … jus the stanford ones that is … PM me =D</p>
<p>I loved my essays when I was done writing them, I loved them when I reread them during the waiting period, and I loved them especially after I got in. However, this thread prompted me to go reread them and I now think that they suck. The voice in the writing sounds way different than the voice that I now have in my writing. It is creepy to think that part of me has changed that much in a little over a year without me really realizing it. I am kind of afraid to find out what I will be like three years down the road.</p>