<p>I have written my Georgetown school specific essay
but the personal one is killing me!!
It is way harder....im trying to be me but also be creative and it is really tough.</p>
<p>^I completely agree! I don't even know how I'm going to start it, the topic is just so broad.....what was your school specific one on?</p>
<p>yea how did u do the school specific one?</p>
<p>I wrote about how my travels made me open my eyes to a problems in the world. I focused in on one trip and then backed up my evidence/ideas by another trip. then talked about how it has guided my future goals. It was for NHS at georgetown. So i pretty much let the question guide me
I have been told it was pretty good. I hope the people who read it were right. haha
sorry...it sounds generic and stuff but i had stuff in there that i felt was really unique and not cliche...i just don't really fell like giving away everything i wrote about...just cause. haha</p>
<p>the personal one is stupid though.
The Admissions Committee would like to know more about you in your own word. Please submiit a brief essay, either personal or creative, which you fell best describes you?......can this be any more broad.
I have been staring at a blank screen for like a half hour now (plus put it off for days too)
haha</p>
<p>Stanford short essays suck :[</p>
<p>I hate this so much.</p>
<p>I'm completely done with all the UMich essays, and cut down the third one to fit the essay for MSU. But common app....grrrrrrrrrr</p>
<p>I have my idea, and my essay all written. Several reviewers have said that it is excellent. The problem is that it's too narrative, and that it is still far too long. Since I finished it at ~1800 words, I have stripped it down to 600-700 words. I still feel that it needs more "what I learned" than "backstory", and it has been very difficult to cut back on details. </p>
<p>Also, for my public schools, I also may need to add another "life experience", so that is another big problem. SIGH</p>
<p>Wow... same problem as lorrainemichaels. My narrative is wayyyy to much narrative and not enough personal insight.</p>
<p>Recently, I finally had a reason to be extremely proud of myself - I was done with essays for all eight of my schools. As celebration, I went out and bought myself an entire cheesecake for $14.99 and finished it for dinner with my friends. I came hope elated and finally recovering from the bloodshot eyes that I had acquired through excessive time spent on the evil word processor called Microsoft Word 2007. Needless to say, I stayed far away from the computer for the next week or so.</p>
<p>Then my parents went paranoia crazy on me and threatened me with disownment if I didn't apply to at least 3 more schools, all of which I did not want to attend- EVER. Moreover, I already a fairly certain safety that I would choose over any of the three additional schools. So waste of time, waste of money. </p>
<p>Just when I thought I was done with this essay madness...arrgghh</p>
<p>bumping this thread up!</p>
<p>2legit2quit: I have the same problem, haha. All of my writing is basically in the form of prose.</p>
<p>mihan- Wow. Congrats on having them all done so early!
I've decided that once I finish all mine, I'm going out to a bakery that makes giant black forest cupcakes and buying one. :)</p>
<p>And then last night, I had a great idea for the Georgetown essay that's bugging me, and then I forgot it....</p>
<p>What fustrated me last year while working on the essay was not knowing who to trust. I thought I wrote a pretty good essay but was still not confident enough with it. My two English teachers loved it; they told me it expressed beautifully who I am and advised that I stick to it. My college guidance counselor wasn't very impressed. He probably thought it was only an average essay. 3/4 friends I asked for advise told me it wasn't that good. It was too descriptive and sounded too flowery and poetic. Finally I trusted in my own instinct and submitted in that essay and got accepted into some really good schools. I'm pretty sure the essay played a nice role in my acceptances. So my advise here to you college essay writers: trust yourself.</p>
<p>this thread is so comforting, knowing that others are going through the same thing that I am. BUT ITS SO FRUSTRATING!!!</p>
<p>I'm having more trouble with the school specific essay on the Georgetown application. =/ The 'creative describe yourself' essay came pretty easily, though. That one was fun to write. (The final wordcount is a little over 300. Should I be worried? It's not long but I feel like I said everything I need to.) I'm also really enjoying the Stanford short essays. =]</p>
<p>okay can i sum all of this up in one phrase? I feel like shouting it at the top of my lungs every time I have to stare at a word doc:</p>
<p>"I HATE ESSAYS!!!!!!"</p>
<p>just as a quick side note here, for all the ppl applying to umich, they barely glance at your essay, so don't stress out. michigan is known to not heavily weigh your essays... trust me, I live in ann arbor and know their process quite well...</p>
<p>I have just written a random first draft and the feedbacks I received:</p>
<p>It's a solid one but it sounded a little arrogant.</p>
<p>Can you imagine spending about one whole night to write that out only to get that comment? </p>
<p>But thank god, I'm not the only one suffering from this essay-diarrhea kinda thing. </p>
<p>It's frustrating!!!</p>
<p>I've redone the beginning like 10 times over 5 days and ...it's only the first paragraph. I'm so tired out...I'm too tired to do the so called "important reflection" now. I didn't know it would be so hard...</p>
<p>This may sound like a pretty dumb question to most, but generally how long are people's common app. essays?</p>
<p>Writer's block is sucking my blood like a female mosquito in Africa =_="</p>
<p>Haven't even started to be honest.</p>
<p>I have an excuse though-my school ended EXTREMELY late and I had a solid two month stretch of standardized tests from May 9-June 30...</p>
<p>i relaxed for a bit, read one summer reading book and then had to go shopping for summer program stuff.</p>
<p>then i went to a five week summer program, which I'll finish in a few days.</p>
<p>then i have a college trip, have to read over 1800 pages of summer reading, study for the act + sat. I am planning on getting them done in the few weeks interim before school</p>