<p>So for my original application to the University of Michigan, I sent in one supplementary essay. Then, a day before I got accepted, I sent in six (one was an extended version of the first essay I sent). About two weeks after that, I got some small, general OOS scholarship. The day before I got accepted to LSA honors I sent in one more essay, and, now, I want to send in two (maybe three, if I decide to finalize one other one tomorrow) more (but I'm not sure if I should). </p>
<p>I really need some sort of big scholarship to be able to afford UMichigan and my statistics surely won't help me out that much with that compared to some of the other people I'll be competing against, so I feel as though I really need to send these essays in but I'm scared that once the scholarship committee reviews my application and sees that I've sent in nine supplemental essays (they're short, so probably ~14? pages when they're combined), they'll just throw out my application and I'll end up getting no substantial scholarships. </p>
<p>So, my question is, do you guys think I should send in more essays (don't worry about their quality or substance) or will that simply cause my app to be trashed? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>I know it’s not easy to wait, but I think maybe you need to stop sending essays and just be patient. You have already sent in extra essays, which is great, but you may push them over the edge if you keep sending more writing samples. Best of luck!</p>
<p>The thing is…some of these essays are of higher quality than the one’s I previously sent in, and they cover different subject-matter than the previous ones.</p>
<p>Why are you sending extra essays? Who advised you to do so, and what was there reasoning behind it?
It just seems to me that all those essays will end up in a folder (if they even make it there) never to be read again.</p>
<p>I advised myself to do so (lol) because I didn’t feel as though pure statistics were completely representative of my academic aptitude. They certainly look at scientific research papers that are submitted, and mine is essentially the humanities/social sciences equivalent of that. I just wanted to add 2 phil of religion papers (one deconstructing Aquinas’ argument from contingency and then showing the inherent incoherence of cosmological arguments and another reconciling the existence of an omniscient deity with the free will of humanity by means of a certain interpretation of quantum mechanics) because in the work that I have sent, so far, that topic has not been touched. As well, the papers are slightly less profound than some of the papers and slightly more profound than some of the papers that I have already sent in, but I thought they could certainly help if they were considered. I mean, competition for scholarships is immensely competitive and I want to give myself the best possible chance at getting one of the major ones so that I can have the University of Michigan as a definitive option (it isn’t one at 45k a year) in my college search. However, I don’t think I’ll be sending the papers in because you’ve given me the impression that I’ve already sent too many papers already and that already has me nervous out of my mind.</p>
<p>Interesting argument.
I’ve honestly never seen/heard this done before, so I have no idea if it will work out.
You should send in those papers because it can’t hurt you. You’ve already been admitted (right?) and you’ve already written them (right?), so send them in.</p>
<p>email them to <a href=“mailto:ecredentials@umich.edu”>ecredentials@umich.edu</a>, make sure you include your name, birth date, and UM-ID.</p>
<p>Blackpen, yes I’ve been admitted to LSA and LSA honors (as I said) and I’ve already written the papers. However, I do, actually, have something to lose because, as I said, if it causes them to throw out my application, then I can’t attend the University of Michigan because I can’t afford it (if I have to pay $45k/year) and I have more affordable options in my home state (a top 50 university for merely $7k/year). I really don’t want to come across as being desperate at all as this would be the third time that I am updating my application by sending something to ecredentials and I’ve yet to send my first semester transcript in (my school automatically sends midyear reports to all universities that we’ve applied to). Again, I don’t know if I want to take the risk of sending in too many essays, so I’m probably not going to send in the essays. I must say, though, I’m going to be thinking what if’s if I don’t send the essays in and receive no scholarship money (although, the same would be true if I did send them in and still got nothing). I may simply end up calling the LSA scholarship phone number and simply ask them how applications are reviewed and if an application may be thrown out due to excessive supplementary information (As far as I know, they don’t have too many applications to review and they review all applications extremely carefully, so I would assume that, if I’ve made it that far, they might take my application more seriously. However, that is just a hunch.) and then make my decision based on the information that I’m given.</p>
<p>I think you are seriously at risk of having already sent too much. What does it say about you if you are incapable of presenting yourself with one supplemental essay like most other applicants? That is a skill that you are expected to have.</p>