What I Really Wanted to Write in My Admissions Essays

By ALEXANDER J.G. SCHNEIDER

Right now I'm in the process of applying to college. Besides filling out the Common Application, I have to write lots of supplemental essays to prove to the admissions officers that I'm a literate person and that I really want to go to their college because I'm bothering to answer their annoying questions. What I hate about the supplemental essays is that they force me to suck up to an institution. Sometimes I'd like to answer the questions honestly because the essay subjects just get me so annoyed. I wonder how those answers would compare to my real answers.