Same Essays

<p>Through my understanding, the colleges will read your apps for questbridge so are you guys giong to write new essays for personal statements?</p>

<p>I believe that some schools actually prefer that you do.</p>

<p>How many of you guys are going to write another essay? What would be a con of writing a separate one?</p>

<p>I wrote another one because I rather disliked the ones I wrote for QuestBridge.</p>

<p>My son had one he really liked, so he didn’t revise it much. For the other ones that can fit a prompt well, he’s saving those essays for last and will use them if he has to, or revise them as much as time allows. Nothing is going in word for word. I think best case scenario is to write different essays that are better, but using your best essays is much more important than having new ones.</p>

<p>You guys are talking about Regular Decision, right? Don’t tell me some people are hardcore enough to write new common app essays for the Match process…which is in 4 days…</p>

<p>And since I brought it up, it’s fine using my Questbridge essays for the Common app essays, right? – As in literal word-for-word (they meet the word limit). Some schools I’m matching with want the Common App (ex. Columbia, UChicago).</p>

<p>Yes. QuestBridge says it’s perfectly fine to do so – in fact, they encourage it.</p>

<p>By encouraging it, does it mean that it is necessarily better? The colleges are going to read everything you write right? Why not give them more to read??? Or is my logic stupid?</p>

<p>I am most definitely rewriting my QuestBridge essays because they were terrible and I completed them 3 days before the due date. Then again, I just finished 8 essays in the last 4 and I have 2 more to go. Nevertheless, they are still better than my QuestBridge ones.</p>

<p>@NumberTwoPencils: Not all colleges read the QuestBridge application. In any event, if a college does read it, it probably glances at the essays very quickly, considering that admissions officers have so many essays to read and usually read only one or two per applicant.</p>

<p>oh boy…
i already submitted it.</p>

<p>Don’t sweat it. By writing another essay, I can’t imagine you’ve hurt your application.</p>