<p>^Hahahah I’m sure they have a grace “length”
its fine if its 10-20 words over. if its more than 50 over, there better be good reason for those words</p>
<p>@dramacratic- I read your brown supplement. you’re a very good writer! you have such a unique writing style :)</p>
<p>i wrote mine on the window i was looking out of as i was writing the essay, and how it was growing dark and as i was writing i could begin to see my reflection more and more clearly in the window and then it becomes completely dark and i talked about the challenge of defining yourself in your surroundings and growing up and stuff. haha i didnt do a great job explaining it but i got in early so im assuming it did the trick, I’ll be happy to trade w. anyone i like to read these things :)</p>
<p>Nice. You know, this is exactly why I will never be a great writer - I dont have such ideas. I can right pretty convincing argumentative essays, but this kind of essays doesnt suit me wel…</p>
<p>There is room for all kinds of good writing. Adcoms are able to recognize that. Try not to compare your style to others. That makes us crazy. And I speak as a professional writer.</p>
<p>Thanks, Stupefy! =]</p>
<p>CrossCountry, I’d love to read yours (I’m a big fan of reading, too), and would be happy to trade. Let me know if you want to.</p>
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SAME HERE. I’m so good at academic-type essays (the type we write usually for school- ie literary analyses, research papers) but I dont have much practice writing about MYSELF so college essays are a bit of a challenge for me :/</p>
<p>Research papers are by far my forte. And I agree, writing about myself makes me feel incredibly egocentric, which I am not by any means. And it’s so…creative. Bleh.</p>
<p>Good to find someone who feels the same. I really hate this kind of essays and I feel that I’m in a great disadvantage, since I have never written anything like that before, while American students and many Asian applicants have been writing them for many years…</p>
<p>On the other hand, I am so stubborn, that I wont try to force myself to write something I cant write. Yes, I will change them a bit, but not very much. I hope that admission officers will appreciate if I am original and different from other applicants. I hope…</p>
<p>I would love to read your guys’ essays, if you don’t mind, or if you have already sent them in. (I sent mine already, so I definitely won’t copy) I especially want to read Dramacratic’s Brown essay and Williams essay and CrossCountry10’s essay. Would you guys pm me?? :)<br>
By the way, I wrote my lame essay on going out for walks when my mom and sister fight and coming home and looking through the window and they’re still yelling at each other and how it makes me depressed…not a great topic at all. So at least you guys don’t have to worry about my essay, because it’s not very good.</p>
<p>Haha. I’ll PM both of my essays over to you, Freakchild. </p>
<p>Honestly, I like the people on these boards, so I don’t feel any sort of competition with anyone. I just want all of us to get accepted so that we’ll know people when we get on campus. </p>
<p>EDIT: That was, by far, one of my worst posts ever. I am so terribly sorry to have subjected you all to read it. I’m also too lazy to make any edits, haha.</p>
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…NOT
I’m Asian AND american (ha!) and I havent written this type of essay since elementary school</p>
<p>OK. I wrote that because I’ve heard about (especially) Chinese students who are preparing for college since they enter HS, and the same goes for Americans in top schools.</p>
<p>You definitely dont have to worry because of me, because my chynces are very low. I just wanted to apply to some of the top schools (Williams, Swarthmore) because our counsellor told me that some guys from my country with very similar SAT scores got into Harvard and some other Ivies.</p>
<p>yeah I go to a mediocre public school in an area that has a lot of elite prep schools</p>
<p>i’m kinda stuck for this =/, just seems weird to me i dont know why lol</p>
<p>I think…genuine over pretentious or “deep” essays are preferable. And, I really do believe following the prompt is a good idea. I’ve read some at Essayforum and most of them don’t really mention an “environment” but rather an event. I did a similar essay as one of the poster here :o but quite different if that makes any sense…</p>
<p>And to Cermi… I’m an international student and now, I go to the top school in my state but I definitely don’t see people writing these kinds of essays 
And, to be honest, most international students, especially Koreans and Chinese (I’m Korean) would struggle with this kind of a prompt mainly because it asks for creativity where their whole life, their education asked for factual, analytical, and regurgitation-type of a writing.</p>
<p>Maybe, but then I can’t understand how do they get 800 in Writting section on SAT if English is not their native language.</p>
<p>The essay section is relatively only 30% (according to CollegeBoard) and it’s not difficult to get a 12 on it with a simple English. I got 11 on the essay as Eighth grade (my 2nd year in America) with rudimentary English: they want it succinct and well constructed. Also, as for the other section, it’s doesn’t require any creativity. Rules of grammar are relatively easy things to learn. </p>
<p>The weird thing is, the more my English improves, the lower my essay score gets. Haha. I try to put in variety of syntactical sentences, hooks, etc but I think I should have just stuck to 5 paragraphs-simple essay like I did my first SAT. As for the grammar section, perfect score. If you read a lot, it actually comes naturally. You read and it doesn’t sound right and then your education kicks in. To be honest, other than the CR vocab section, it’s my favorite section of the SAT. (I know, seeing I’m Asian, I should like Math more but Math never was my thing…)</p>
<p>They DO teach English in Asia, you know. And their way of teaching is different from here. They teach grammar and the specifics of the language while here, it’s all about expressing yourself. </p>
<p>I was an oddball in that I missed all the English education in Korea. I came here without even knowing the alphabet. In a way, I find it a bit better because firstly, I don’t have an accent and I wouldn’t be able to construct sentences as well if I had only learned the rules of English rather than HOW to write/speak English. Did that make any sense…? >.<</p>
<p>I completely agree! My essay score was an 8. This is because I fail at writing succinctly and really did not know what the essay graders were looking for from my 20 minute essay-writing. On both AP English exams, I wrote well enough to score a 5, so I’m still perplexed about what happened on the SATs. Oh well.</p>