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herostratus
17 Feb 2015, 10:50
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helenrez
Is anyone else in the same boat?How important is the optional essay?
Anybody here of people not submitting the optional essay and making it?
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17 Feb 2015, 10:58
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someone posted earlier in the thread that got in round 1 w/o doing the optional essay. i assume its a pretty case by case basis.
17 Feb 2015, 14:40
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I'd look at it this way. The optional essay can help you in two ways. First, it can give you a place to showcase skills/interests/talents that you haven't sufficiently showcased elsewhere in your application, which can be helpful because they are looking for lots of different skills and the applicant pool is pretty competitive. Second, it can give you a way to further indicate interest in the school (you're willing to go the extra mile to write another essay). Of course, you could also write a really bad optional essay that hurts your candidacy, but I doubt this is typically the case. So overall, I'd say if your application is really strong it's definitely possible to get invited without doing the optional essay, but for most candidates writing the optional essay is probably a good idea if possible.
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