<p>why do some schools want you to handwrite the essay? what's the point..?
when exeter requires the essays handwritten and typed out i really can't think of a reason why they would want that.</p>
<p>I recently heard my son's advisor complaining about how illegible some of his students' handwriting is. I am guessing that they want to be certain that you know how to write legibly. There are some students with poor penmanship, and teachers have to try to decipher it. I am also guessing that Exeter asks for it typed out because that is easier to read after they determine that the handwritten part is readable.</p>
<p>At our local middle school, they are trying to get "back to the basics". This includes NOT letting kids use word processors for papers and making them write things out. Basic skills...penmanship, using books for research, etc....our becoming lost.</p>
<p>I'm really glad there are hand written essays because my penmanship is really great. :) haha</p>
<p>ughh fine, i swear my hands gonna die before i finish
2 for Taft, 2 for Exeter..here i gooo</p>
<p>they enjoy torturing us, of course. (can't you just imagine them all, cackling and asking eachother "how can we make this even more miserable for them.....) LOL. I dunno, i was thinking about that too. Maybe the look at our handwriting and use those weird physchology tricks to figure out our personality. (dot I to the left=unstable person, loop g=dumb person) LOL.</p>
<p>haha
thats bad because i loop my gs!
my handwriting is so..bubbly! its so round and curly and girly haha and its big too so i have a hard time keeping it all in one page and "if needed, attach an additional sheet of paper"..lol i need like 5 additional sheets of paper =]</p>
<p>I think its actually because word processing programs can too easily correct your spelling and grammatical mistakes. It also discourages parents from writing essays for applicants - believe me, it happens.</p>
<p>I also think it helps to increase the effort you need to put into a particular recommendation. I have long thought that a downside of the common application, on the college side of life, is that it makes it too easy for a candidate to apply to many schools at the push of a button. This has the paradoxical effect, in my opinion, of increasing the competition in the applicant pool. In the old days, when you had to type the applications individually, and they were all unique, there was a practical limit to the number of colleges to which you could apply. If every applicant applies to 12 colleges these days, rather than four, that has the same effect as a 300% larger applicant pool. (grumbles from an old dinosaur.)</p>
<p>collide, haha, my handwiriting is very girly too! and i kept accidentally looping my y's on the apps. haha! they are going to think i'm so stupid. :)</p>