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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People here are not parsing Q and A to match.
1.  Publishing something is a good thing. Certainly mention it.
2.  DO NOT USE TERM "PUBLISHED AUTHOR" ever in referring to yourself. You say you  "wrote X," which you cite including the publisher. Look at some real CVs or something. Professors all have them online as do many academics. Or look at a style manual or bibliography in your field. [/quote]

OK...enough with the symantics bullshit about calling yourself a "published author".  We get it.

Here's the point.  If you write a book as an 18 year old, it's published by a legitimate publishing house, if you can walk into Barnes & Noble and there is the book on the shelf...yes, this is impressive.  It likely factors importantly into your Common Essay because one has to believe either the topic of your book (if non-fiction) or the act of writing and your thought process (if fiction) is core to who you are as a person.

If it's self-published/you just pay a company to publish it, well it's impressive if you are one of the 0.1% who actually produces a hit self-published book (there is some massively successful book that came out in like the last year written by some 80 year old person that had this backstory and then it was picked up by a major publisher after it had become a hit on its own)...but other than that, it's just interesting but not the same as the former example.
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