<p>God, the 6,000 character limit on the essay is killing me! I'm such a verbose person (I love adjectives). Grr! How do I make the essay pithy, concise? Just constant re-editing?</p>
<p>Have any of the schools posted supplements yet?</p>
<p>no! and its. so. annoying.:)</p>
<p>EuropeGirl, remember that it isn't 6000 characters, its 150-500 words, which sucks. I am a very descriptive writer, poet-at-heart and all, and my scientist father laughs at my essay troubles. Here's my suggestion: choose an exceedinly simple topic, not one that carries the weight of the world. Also, make it one-sided (not biased, I mean like focus on one part of an issue, not the holistic picture). It's awful, but since everyone is so hampered, writers still have the advantage.</p>
<p>Hey, do I put that my dad has been non-existant since my parents divorced 15 years ago in the extra info box, because he doesn't pay child support and we don't know where he lives?</p>
<p>God, the 6,000 character limit on the essay is killing me! I'm such a verbose person (I love adjectives). Grr! How do I make the essay pithy, concise? Just constant re-editing?>></p>
<p>Try this: Decide what is the MOST important thing you want an admissions rep to learn about you from reading your essay. Take out everything that doesn't significantly support or add to that.</p>
<p>I have read hundreds of admissions essays and the biggest problem I see is that people try to do too much with admissions essays. It is important to focus, focus, focus.</p>
<p>I've listed some suggestions for writing essays here: <a href="http://www.collegehunt.blogspot.com/2005/06/telling-your-story-admissions-essays.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegehunt.blogspot.com/2005/06/telling-your-story-admissions-essays.html</a> and here:
<a href="http://www.collegehunt.blogspot.com/2005/06/telling-your-story-admissions-essays_13.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegehunt.blogspot.com/2005/06/telling-your-story-admissions-essays_13.html</a> </p>
<p>Hope they help!</p>
<p>What are you suppose to do when your parent's college doesn't fit in the space given to write it. Say some college in korea?</p>
<p>Anyone know the answer to my question?</p>
<p>Is it mandatory to specify what grade you held a postion in a club/organization since the appl doesn't say to do so?</p>
<p>Duffman - Abbreviate. The colleges are mainly looking to see if your parents are their own alumni. Other than that, they really won't pay attention to the name of your parents' college/uni.</p>
<p>Pge - No, not mandatory to say when you held a position or provide any information not specified on the application. If you plan to send in a supplemental resume providing more detail, you can include that info. there.</p>
<p>I have a lot of trouble filling out the common app. It is mostly because the addresses in korea and stuff just don't fit into the box that is given. What am I supposed to do? The korean address is my dad's address so I have to write it.</p>
<p>Carolyn: What are you talking about, I was talking about my dad's address being unknown....heh</p>
<p>Ok some of the schools I'm applying to only require the ACT with no SAT 2s.. however, some do. </p>
<p>My SAT 2s are not great so I don't want to show them unless I need to. How can I show them to the schools that require them and not to the ones that don't. Don't the colleges get sent the scores anyway, so can I just fill in my ACT score??</p>
<p>hello32: you have to specify which specific places will receive an SAT score report (so i guess in your case, you would have to do the common app different times, adjusting for whether or not to self-report the SAT 2's ON the common app)</p>
<p>Can I write about anything for the additional essay on Harvard's supplement? (Like "Why did I chose Harvard"; "Ethical Dilemma" "Death of Pet" "My sister" etc)</p>
<p>kisstherainbow, i think it has to be chosen from Harvard's topics, but dont hold me to that. once i get home i can check for you.</p>
<p>i was just wondering, when you're using the common app for teacher reccomendations, do you ask them to write like 10 (if you're applying to 10 common app colleges) different sheets, or can you make photocopies or what? Cuz u have to write them out by hand - thats a lot of work!</p>
<p>that was kind of a stupid question. i assume if u do it that way, you just send one rec to the common app and they distribute it?</p>
<p>Duffman, Whoops, obviously I was answering imiracle's question about not being able to fit his Dads university name on the application. Bet you didn't know that YOUR dad also went to school in Korea, uh? :)</p>
<p>lol, so typical of this board... everyone gets confused when someone mentions a Korean daddy, because everyone has a Korean daddy...
:)</p>
<p>You can acess the suppplements for all (or almost all) of the common app schools at:</p>
<p>You may need to fix the link. Or, go to commonapp.org, and click on Students, then roughly the fourth paragraph down.</p>