<p>Hey when should I start writing my essays. I start my senior year in about two weeks. Should I have already started writing my essays? I'm pretty lost.</p>
<p>if you ant to apply early you should have started in the beginning of summer.</p>
<p>Last week.</p>
<p>Haha. I'm just kidding! My senior year starts in 2 weeks as well, and I finished my essays yesterday (as well as all the applications) but I feel hesitant to actually send them in so soon. I am ready to send in 4 ea apps and have all the ed ones waiting. So far I only know of one other senior at my school who is close to being as far as I am and shes going for Stanford (and has a decent shot), but your average student has probably just started thinking about colleges and wont start writing for another couple months.</p>
<p>NOTE: Your "average" student also would not care enough to register on this forum, so nobody here counts as such :)</p>
<p>Earlier is better, but it depends on how your mind works. Personally I work better under pressure and left my essays until about 2 weeks before they were due (I had the prompts floating around in my head for a few months, but just didn't have any ideas I really liked at that point). Leaving it until the night before is not a good idea though.</p>
<p>Ehh, I already finished my Transfer essays to Ann Arbor... Cause I don't know how my freshman year at university will be, so I got that out of the way.</p>
<p>During my senior year I made a mistake. I started on my applications early summer, was a member on CC for like 2 years, read lots of posts..</p>
<p>But my parents weren't sure were I was going... I ended up applying late and got rejected at many places...</p>
<p>Not taking the chances again this year, I'll probably submit my application to Ann Arbor in 1-2 months..</p>
<p>I suggest you get started on your applications, figure out where you're going for college, write your essays.. Two weeks is a lot of time.</p>
<p>I'm lost too. Haha, don't worry. It really depends on intiative. Some of my friends who I met at a UC Berkeley internship program already finished essays, while some haven't even considered starting.</p>
<p>Back at home though, it's only the overachievers who have remotely even started. I guess I'm one of them, and the majority of my friends think I'm crazy.</p>
<p>My opinion is to start on them now, and just keep on rereading drafts or portions of your essays -- handing them to your teachers early to edit to avoid the heavy essay-reading flow wouldn't hurt either! Starting too early (aka early summer) I think gets you too numbed "effect-wise" after editing so many times and starting too late -- well, you know what happens.</p>