Anonymous
09/15/2025 23:00
Subject: No essay required by Clemson?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A lot of state schools don't read essays. When you are admitting tens of thousands of kids, who cares or has time to differentiate?
Just make the essays shorter by imposing a word limit; for example, a word limit of 2 might produce a great Why Clemson essay composed of "Go Tigers ".
If anyone needs help composing a two word limit essay for Indiana, Penn State, or UVa, I think that I can help.
Gaslight much? Clemson's overall national rankings are not on the same level as Penn State for sure.
Lol Penn State and Indiana are nothing like selective privates. Clemson and Penn State are about the same level. Clemson has lower acceptance rate.
Manipulating acceptance rates is easy, just make the essay optional and you have more apps to reject. At the end of the day they’re both cow colleges.
LOL personal essay is optional and there's an optional one essay which is a similar topic as the personal essay for Penn State. Big deal lol
So you’re saying both are a joke? lol
Nope I was saying essays are joke.
Translation: Almost all respectable colleges require an essay but my college doesn’t. Therefore, instead of admitting my college is a joke, I think essays are a joke and all those actual respectable colleges are wrong.
It's a joke that at any college you don't even know who actually wrote it.
How do you know that the AO doesn’t know? Obviously they disagree with you and think you’re wrong
WTF do you mean?
AO doesn't know because AO wasn't there when kids were writing it.
For SAT, we at least know the kids actually took it.
Anonymous
09/15/2025 21:24
Subject: No essay required by Clemson?
They should probably just go back to having a timed SAT 2/Achievement test in Writing rather than the Common App essay. Colleges would at least have a general sense of what they are getting in terms of non-AI writing ability.
Anonymous
09/15/2025 19:02
Subject: No essay required by Clemson?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A lot of state schools don't read essays. When you are admitting tens of thousands of kids, who cares or has time to differentiate?
VT definitely reads the essays.
The are using AI as a second reader this year. So….
There’s still at least one human reader, and another if the AI and the human score more than a mere 2 points apart. So….
Anonymous
09/15/2025 16:57
Subject: No essay required by Clemson?
Anonymous wrote:Just like hiring managers don't read cover letters. "I'm hard working and a team player, and will be an asset to the organization because blah, blah, blah..." Who cares? Everyone just judges based on the resume. Clemson admitted 23,000 students last year. You think they are saying "Well, Sally's stats are lower than Johnny's, but her essay just hit harder according to our hourly-paid temp admissions reader." It is a waste of their time/money to evaluate based on essays at that scale.
This is kind of how I see it too.
(with no skin in the game; Clemson isn't on DC's list but a few similar ones are)
Anonymous
09/15/2025 16:21
Subject: No essay required by Clemson?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A lot of state schools don't read essays. When you are admitting tens of thousands of kids, who cares or has time to differentiate?
Just make the essays shorter by imposing a word limit; for example, a word limit of 2 might produce a great Why Clemson essay composed of "Go Tigers ".
If anyone needs help composing a two word limit essay for Indiana, Penn State, or UVa, I think that I can help.
Gaslight much? Clemson's overall national rankings are not on the same level as Penn State for sure.
Lol Penn State and Indiana are nothing like selective privates. Clemson and Penn State are about the same level. Clemson has lower acceptance rate.
Manipulating acceptance rates is easy, just make the essay optional and you have more apps to reject. At the end of the day they’re both cow colleges.
LOL personal essay is optional and there's an optional one essay which is a similar topic as the personal essay for Penn State. Big deal lol
So you’re saying both are a joke? lol
Nope I was saying essays are joke.
Translation: Almost all respectable colleges require an essay but my college doesn’t. Therefore, instead of admitting my college is a joke, I think essays are a joke and all those actual respectable colleges are wrong.
It's a joke that at any college you don't even know who actually wrote it.
How do you know that the AO doesn’t know? Obviously they disagree with you and think you’re wrong