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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Who reads the essays when you apply to a university?

When you do an essay for your university applicationho reads it? The university staff you chose?





if i send the same essay(because it was the same topic) to two diferent universities..is that wrong? What you do recommend?





Any passed experienced???





Thanks



<If you are considering writing the essay to a target audience, don't. There is no way you can predict who (or how many) will read it. It the topic permits, using the same essay for multiple schools is not only not wrong, it is common sense.





Recommendation. Don't be as lazy on the essay as you were with this posting. Spelling, punctuation and grammar count. If it comes up in the essay, it is "past" experience, not "passed". Sentences begin with caps, and "I" is a formal noun. "...." is not a substitute for a comma. "The university staff you chose?" is an incomplete sentence and the word is "choose", not "chose". It's "different" not "diferent".





Yeah, I know - picky, picky, picky. However, lazy habits in writing carry over and become habit. If I were screening an admissions essay and found this many mistakes in the first paragraph or two, I would reject it out of hand and not bother reading past the first paragraph or two.




They have admissions counselors who read the essays. You can't choose who reads it. Sending the same essay isn't wrong if you wrote it. The Common Application is practically made for that. I've sent the same essay to about 9 schools it's not a problem whatsoever, as long as the essay isn't specifically focused on a particular school (you wouldn't want to mention the name of the wrong school).

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