I started my college essay in August - and then didnt pick it up again until a week before the deadline to hand it in to my guidance counselor. There are two redundancies (using the same word, other than common conventions, in two adjacent sentences, and one grammar error (left the ‘s’ off the end of a word). There are many other things I want to improve on too. I had five people proofread it and everybody said it was fine - well, it wasn’t. I never make these mistakes in my every day work, so it is irritating for that simple fact, not to mention it may determine the rest of my life. Should I make the corrections and overnight the new essay to my colleges with a note to disregard the old one, or will doing so only detract even more from my application?
<p>I will not recommend you to update your essay. Adcoms probably will not mind that much about small language mistakes....</p>
<p>Whooo, this got me thinking.</p>
<p>OK, so I submitted my essay on November 1st for Yale EA. Now, it is fairly good, but in the past 2 months, I have gone through a significant of activity directly relating to the essay, and made it much better written (although the writting in this post <em>sucks</em>). When I send an update letter in early February, should I just write the letter longer and include the info, or a shorter letter with the completely updated essay.</p>
<p>Don't update your essays. You will look like a jerk to have the AO read again for a typo or two.</p>
<p>Like the 2nd poster, dd managed to cut 300 words out of an EA essay and it still had the power of the first one. I cannot recco updating your essay, that is lame and they will figure out why.</p>
<p>wait. i sent cornell an essay replacement, dont they just REPLACE it?</p>
<p>they REPLACE it so it doesn't matter if you send another one</p>
<p>that{s what i thought, so it shouldnt matter then</p>