<p>Pretty please? :3</p>
<h2>Maybe you missed this on the Harvard board, where you are also asking for people to read your essays!</h2>
<p>This isn’t like a peer review in a high school class – it’s way too important for that. Seasoned adults will be reading your essay looking for glimpses of your “character.” That’s an old fashioned word; it means the way you develop your inner qualities: intellectual passion, maturity, social conscience, concern for community, tolerance, inclusiveness and love of learning. </p>
<p>You should share your essay with the teacher’s who are writing your recommendation letters, as Admissions Officers look for your teachers to reinforce and confirm the “character” projected in a student’s essay.</p>
<p>If you don’t want to show your essays to your teachers, please share them with several adults in your life that you admire and respect. Ask them: “Does this sound like me?” “Does this essay convey who I am?” If they answer yes, then you nailed it. </p>
<p>It’s also not a good idea to share your essays on CC because another applicant could inadvertently, or on purpose, steal your idea or concept and use it in their essay. </p>
<p>You may, of course, ignore my advice completely and ask random strangers on an internet forum what they think. The danger, however, is that you may get ten, fifteen or twenty differing opinions, some of them from 13 year-olds on this board, and that will leave you very confused. For what it’s worth, my advice is not to do it.</p>
<p>alexiss: Please take Gibby’s advice. Your judgment is suspect following this course of action.</p>
<p>I will. I just posted both of the threads pretty close to each other and I just saw what gibby posted on my H thread, lol. <em>^▁^</em> Thanks!</p>