<p>Last week, a member named AvidStudent said he would read essays. I saw that he was a reputable member, and thus I agreed. I sent him my short answer first and received a response in about a day. I sent him my long essay for the Common App and he ignored me. It has been almost a week. I have tried every method I can think of to contact him. He is reading my private messages but is ignoring me. The reason why I am posting this on CC is because I hope there can be some pressure to get him to answer me, and also, since he seems to be a well known member, if something happened to him (i.e. he was hacked), I can know. I am incredibly nervous, as I have contacted him repeatedly, but he refuses to answer my messages.</p>
<p>That’s a pretty big accusation with not much evidence. Maybe he hasn’t gotten online or maybe he just doesn’t want to answer your messages–it’s a pretty big leap to stealing your essay.</p>
<p>You’re right that my accusations are a bit deep, I have changed my post a little to reflect that. However, I should make a few points. He has been getting online and he has been reading my private messages, because I am getting read receipts back. In addition, I don’t understand why he would be ignoring me with no explanation whatsoever, especially since he offered to read those essays in the first place. It would be incredibly rude of him to suddenly shut me out after claiming he would read my essay “in a few hours”, especially since I have sent him multiple PMs about how his inaction is causing me stress. If he just said, “No, I don’t want to read your essays” I would be fine, but he is reading my PMs and not responding at all.</p>
<p>That leads me to believe this guy either does not care for whatever reason, or maybe someone else is accessing his account, which is a cause for concern.</p>
<p>tl;dr, I didn’t mean to accuse him of stealing my stuff, I’m more concern that he may have been hacked or something.</p>
<p>Although I realize you are quite upset over this, I don’t believe the forums are the place to bring this issue up. If there is something wrong with his account, there’s nothing we can do. If he did steal your essays, calling him out won’t solve anything - and if he’s innocent, you run the risk of smearing his name needlessly.</p>
<p>Ugh, I fear you may be right. I sent a close request since I can’t edit my post. I don’t know what to do, I suppose I’ll just submit my stuff and hope for the best.</p>
<p>It might just be that he doesn’t want to respond yet. A lot of times when I get emails or something I’ll read them but I won’t reply until later.</p>
<p>on the off chance that he did steal your essays, whose fault is it? just saying - it’s a risk you run when you send essays to a stranger. good luck</p>
<p>Apparently AvidStudent is already a student at Dartmouth so I doubt very much that s/he has any plans for your essays other than to review them for you when time permits</p>
<p>Applicants who post their essays on College Confidential and/or send them to unknown strangers should expect those essays to be “stolen.” The only people you should ask to comment upon your essays are people in your real life who are well-know to you such as your English teacher and parents.</p>
<p>That said, it is unlikely the poster you have accused has “stolen” your essay. People you send messages to are under NO obligation to reply to your messages. None.</p>
<p>It is my opinion that the poster you have accused has far more of a grievance against you than you have against him/her.</p>
<p>This accusation is full of slanderous lies. I have not been away nor have I been busy. I simply have just been ignoring Zapurdead (the accuser) because he has become demanding and annoying. In the past few days, the days I didn’t respond to Zapurdead (the accuser), I have read and edited more than a dozen essays for other CC members. I am currently a freshman at Dartmouth College. Why would I need CommonApp essays? I have never prided myself in my writing, but I can honestly and genuinely say that my writing is better than the alleged “stolen” essay. I am guilty of failing to communicate with Zapurdead (the accuser), but if you were being bombarded with private messages, sometimes upward of 3 a day, wouldn’t some of you do the same? </p>
<p>Avid stated that I messaged him upward of three times a day, but the only day that I did that was yesterday. I was starting to get nervous, but if you were in the same position, wouldn’t you think so too? Furthermore, please look at the nature of my messages. They are worried and nervous, but nor demeaning nor confrontational.</p>
<p>AvidStudent, I am truly sorry for ever “bothering” you. I’ll admit, I was “annoying”, but only because you ignored me well beforehand. Also, I am sorry to blatantly accuse you of stealing. However, I had every reason to fear the worst. Rest assured, I will never message you again. That being said, your response just now was both incorrect and equally slanderous. I have realized my error, you realize yours.</p>
<p>Why any high school student would post or send an essay to someone who may, or may not be the competition is utterly absurd.</p>
<p>What happens when they do, indeed actually use one of your essays? How could you ever prove that it happened?</p>
<p>Why not just deal with people who you know in real life? I have at times read students work and been happy to give feedback; but it’s so crazy to share this information online. </p>
<p>You just never know if people are telling the truth and who they “say” they are. It’s a dangerous idea.</p>
<p>I would have asked a teacher, but it was too late, because they all leave for Winter Break. That was my fault. I would have asked family, but I all my relatives live overseas, and my parents are immigrants and do not speak English too well.</p>
<p>I saw Avid’s offer to read essays, and even though he was a trustworthy person (multiple posts, active member of the community, member for a few years), I was still paranoid from the beginning, but I felt like I had no choice.</p>
<p>Again, I get it, I shouldn’t have sent my essays over the internet. I’ve read multiple posts telling me that in this thread. Honestly, I was hoping it would just die or the mods would delete it before it got too much attention, but I only responded because of what AvidSTudent said.</p>