<p>Weird request, but would any of you who were accepted ED be able to send me your Columbia short answers?</p>
<p>I was rejected ED. My application was strong, but I'm pretty sure most of my short answers killed me; only one short answer could have been considered to be amazing. However, I have a few other applications to do for RD, but I'd like to see exactly what I did wrong in my short answers, and I'd like to see a few examples of what constitutes a great short answer so I won't make any of the same mistakes on my other applications. Message me if you're willing.</p>
<p>And if you're worried about plagiarism, I won't plagiarize or steal ideas since I have all my ideas down already; I just need to see some short answer structures.</p>
<p>However, if you all are uncomfortable with sharing your short answers since they might be too personal, I understand.</p>
<p>Thank you, and congratulations and best wishes to all of you! :)</p>
<p>Really? Do you not see how transparent your “request” is. Come on buddy.</p>
<p>I’d just like to clarify:</p>
<p>I do not intend to plagiarize others’ essays at all, but I apologize if it seems that way. I’d just like to see a variety of examples.</p>
<p>However, I am a person of my word. I do not plagiarize. Besides, since I was rejected ED from Columbia already, I have no reason to plagiarize others’ short answers to reapply. And if I did in fact try to plagiarize others’ Columbia short answers to use in, say, Brown short answers, that would be in vain because all of prompts of the colleges I’m applying to have drastically different short answer prompts; it would be even more in vain if I tried plagiarizing the “Why Columbia?” short answer since all colleges are different, and cookie-cutter, or copied and pasted, essays do not work for them.</p>
<p>There are several sample personal statement essays available on Google, yet I did not plagiarize off them at all; I merely analyzed them as part of the essay-writing process. People have always said to study others’ works is the best way to improve your own work, hence why we do close readings in AP Language and Composition and AP Literature and Composition, look at DBQs that received 8s and 9s from previous AP European History exams, or examine Michelangelo’s paintings–to improve. In fact, I will allow juniors to look at my essays so they can analyze them themselves.</p>
<p>But if there is something wrong with my thinking, feel free to correct me.</p>