The college essay wrongly encourages students to cast themselves as victims, to exaggerate the adversity they’ve faced, and to turn genuinely upsetting experiences into the focal point of their self-understanding. The college essay, dear reader, should be banned and banished and burned to the ground.
Wow… For real?
“College essay is the worst thing in America because you could be perfect in all the tests, but then straight up just be an unlikeable asshat that nobody wants anything to do with.”
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