<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm trying to prepare myself and the essay is the one thing I can't grade. I wrote this in 25 minutes in response to the 2007-2008 practice prompt. If someone could give me a grade estimate I'd really appreciate it:</p>
<p>Given the importance of human creativity, one would think it should have a high priority among our concerns. But if we look at the reality, we see a different picture. Basic scientific research is minimized in favor of immediate practical applications. The arts are increasingly seen as dispensable luxuries. Yet as competition heats up around the globe, exactly the opposite strategy is needed. </p>
<p>Is creativity needed more than ever in the world today? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<h2>MY ESSAY:</h2>
<p>Economists speak of what is known as a "perfectly competetive" market, in which there are no barriers of entry. Jobs such as being a cashier or grocery bagger at at the local supermarket emulate this in the closest way possible. Without creativity, one begins to limit him or herself to a very specific range of menial tasks. When people refuse to use their own originality more than ever, they are putting themselves in competition with hundreds of other like-minded equals. This is the reason why creativity is so essential in today's world. Creativity is essential to one's success because through being creative, people can surpass those around them in order to be distinguished and successful.</p>
<p>For example, today one of the largest art forms is the art of video game design. Hundreds of studios compete to develop games using the latest technologies to satisfy a large market of consumers. Lately, a pattern has been noticed by myriad game critics. Rather than creating new ideas and exploring the untouched lands of game content creation, large corporations will choose to work with old intellectual property, rehashing past ideas into similar mediums. Games such as Call of Duty and Final Fantasy are vastly criticized, for avoiding innovation and instead using years-old work to lure old and loyal consumers into continuously purchasing their works. However, this business model has lately come under the scrutiny of even the most loyal of consumers. Gamers are becoming weary of constantly reused content, instead purchasing independandly produced games that are innovate and advance the artforms. Thus even large corporations are being forced to create more creative games, in order to retain users who have become suspicious of titles they have been playing for decades.</p>
<p>Furthermore, many internet entrepreneurs have had a similar experience with their respective markets. As economists would predict, web entrepreneurs are now forced to use creativity in order to make their products stand out. A notable example of this is the death of MySpace, a website that used to be valued at billions of dollars. This is because just a few years after Myspace's creation, social-networkers abandoned it for the newly developed Facebook, which pushed the limits on a social network's function through creative features that Myspace had failed to develop. MySpace's failure to use creativity caused it to lose its online traction. Its stock values plummeted. It was forced to layoff developers, and it is now practically abandoned by daily users. Without the use of creativity, nobody can ever hope to be successful.</p>
<p>Creativity has become of one of the most fundamental prerequisites for success in today's society. Only by leveraging creativity can people hope to set themselves apart from the competition. Thus, if somebody is not creative, they do not stand a chance in today's transnational market. People must realize that today, the world policy for innovation is to either "Go big or go home." Thus, time spent pursuing success without the aid of creativity might as well be time wasted.</p>
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<p>I know this has tons of grammar/spelling errors, I was just trying to write as much as possible given the time constraint. Any feedback on my scoring had this been a real SAT essay would really be appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>