Which schools have eliminated supplemental essays this year? 2035

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Anonymous wrote:Everyday our standards get lower and lower. Now the kids don’t need to know how to write or persuade others. God, this country’s education is a joke.

They still have the common app essay to showcase their writing skills. Why do they need to answer with an additional 2-3 essays per school?

It’s nice to have a measure of interest in a school beyond sob stories.

I think it helps with yield. If you are going to take the time to do the 4-5 additional essays, submit a graded paper blah blah blah—you have to have some stronger desire to attend.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyday our standards get lower and lower. Now the kids don’t need to know how to write or persuade others. God, this country’s education is a joke.

That’s a ridiculous accusation! Reducing the number of essays actually helps colleges revert back to recruiting overall higher quality students as essays have been used as one of the “holistic” tools to stay away from meritocracy.

Meritocracy but can’t write an essay? Sure.

If you want the best students, they can write an essay without bemoaning that it’s inequitable.

There is the common app essay and there can be a why school essay to demonstrate your writing skills. If you want to be an English composition major, go ahead to submit your supplemental writing samples. Hoping to game the system and gain advantage by slipping in sob story opportunities is simply corruption.

But supps are the meritocratic part? It’s literally how departments decipher who has the grit and passion to actually make it through. This once again sounds like meritocracy, only in my terms when I like it.

That’s fake meritocracy though because 1) it’s subject to AO’s interpretation and helps them game the system, and more importantly 2) it can be totally and easily faked. It’s like asking the students to proctor their own SAT tests and trust the subsequent scores.

Right because the SAT is such a great measure- an exam that doesn’t have any calculus or higher level math and has the most basic English questions possible, and now is even easier on the online version. That’s such a rigorous exam

You have a cognitive and reasoning issue, which is why you insisted on more BS essays to cover up your low intelligence.