Stop posting your essays in the thread body!

College Essays
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<p>Publicly posting your essay is risky. Anyone can take your ideas, phrases, or even entire essay and submit it before you have the chance. If you're lucky and nobody does plagiarize your work, you chance being accused of plagiarism yourself because if adcom's search for selected phrases of your essay online or through a special service, results will instantly show your thread and there is no way of proving that you were the individual who posted it in the first place. </p>

<p>If you're deadline is coming close and you feel that posting your entire essay online will give the best responses, you're wrong. It's the quality of the critique not the quantity. Most people who review your essay on CC are in your graduating class; they have an inclination to either rip your essay to shreds or tell you it's great when it's not. They tell you repetitive criticism like, "bad grammar", "not addressing the topic well", or " too clich</p>

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<p>There are also a couple of posters (such as silverturtle and myself) who have posted threads stating that we have dedicated some of our times as readers… start with us (I remmember there was a particularly good reader [as a testament, he is now at an Ivy… :p] a while back, and he posted such a thread… anyone remmember his name?)</p>

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<p>Yes, I’ve heard of/seen silverturtle. I somewhat agree with your insinuation because he (and I’m assuming you too) are elite applicants that could probably construct an essay without taking another person’s ideas/work. I’m referring more to the people who have 10 posts and a join date from only a week ago. </p>

<p>(That being said, I’m not really one to talk because I only have about 100 posts. However, I’ve been on CC since October of 09 and my college priorities are slightly more important than posting CC advice.)</p>