<p>International student applying to MIT. I will appreciate it very much if you were to read my essays and give me feedback. I prefer people at or accepted by MIT. However, all others are welcome!!</p>
<p>Sure, you can send them to me.</p>
<p>Sure, write me</p>
<p>@09Ti08, @WritersBlues, and @Askar96:</p>
<p>I’m curious.<br>
- What is it you’ll be looking for when you critique bluebilla’s essay?
- How do you know you will be looking for the same things that the MIT adcoms will be looking for?</p>
<p>@jpm50 -Mostly what should be stressed out and what shouldn’t. But some try hards will also do grammar. Here’s an example:
What accomplishments do you have?
Yo bro my accomplishments are like i was like hunting like cool deer and then i drank their blood and ate them and took their skin and made it into a helmet. I’ve been doing this since i was a little kid dude accomplishments all the way. Oh yeah, I was also captain of the math team.</p>
<p>So in this scenario^, you would tell the guy to elaborate more on his math team position, and less on the deer hunting. Stuff like that, you get the picture.</p>
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<li>Hm, you just answer the question. If you answer it fully and impressively then you’re good.</li>
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<p>^^^
But undefined123 wrote: “Mostly what should be stressed out and what shouldn’t.”</p>
<p>How do you know what the MIT adcom readers want to see stressed and what they don’t want to see?</p>
<p>PS: I’m not trying to start an argument. But there is so much misinformation on CC, especially in the area of chance-me and essay help, that I got curious about qualifications on responding.</p>
<p>@undefined… actually, to the writer of the cool deer essay… obviously deer hunting is very important to him. MIT (and any school) wants to know what is important to the applicant and how that activity has impacted them. Did they hunt deer to survive (via eating and drinking and using the skins)? That would be a big story. MIT (and many other schools) have tons of math captain applicants. It doesn’t appear to be important to the (imaginary) author of the essay and therefore elaborating on it will be somewhat “artificial” to the applicant’s essay.</p>
<p>To the OP, you need to recognize that I think all of the respondents to your query are also all applicants themselves. They are not offering to help you as much as they are hoping to help themselves.</p>
<p>@jpm50 To continue on to what I said, they basically want to see your biggest accomplishments stressed out. Also the ones that are most important to you. But they have to be, in some way, relevant to what you like doing and what career you want to pursue. If you want to become an engineer, you probably wouldn’t want to stress out your deer-hunting accomplishments as much. Sure, it’s unique and cool, but you have to show that you are passionate about the field you are going into.</p>
<p>No, you do not need to show that you are passionate about the field you are going into. MIT likes to see passion, it could be in anything. It can be a sport, or a science, or a passion for volunteering. It really doesn’t matter. It’s passionate people who make a difference in the world. MIT is looking for students who in one way or another will probably help make the world we live in a better place.</p>
<p>Send 'em to me too if you want a 4th opinion.</p>
<p>Well, thank you all for the wonderful replies!</p>
<p>@crazymomster
I realize that, so I make it a point to only show my essays to members who’ve been around for some time, after I’ve checked out their previous posts. Thanks for the advice btw.</p>
<p>Thank you @WriterBlues - didn’t realize writing an essay for MIT was that simple.</p>