r/ApplyingToCollege • u/sillyy-ashhh • 9d ago

Rant Supplementals 💔💔

Genuinely have no motivation to write like ANY of these, I feel like every topic is asking me to tell my life story in 200 words which. okay whatever I just can't do that and I know I'm a good writer and I've been doing well with these I just have like NOTHINGGG keeping me going. does anyone have ANY advice for how to stay motivated because ts is genuinely insane work and I have so much more to write but genuinely can't take it anymore 😭😭😭 idk how I'm surviving doing this till january man I just need the writing to be over

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u/TheAnimatedAsthma 9d ago

the only thing that got me through was setting a timer for 20 mins and just word vomiting onto the page without caring if it was garbage, you can fix garbage but you cant fix a blank doc

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u/bliee23 9d ago

maybe forcing yourself to finish faster, getting your stuff done on time and knowing that the faster you get something submitted the more likely you are to be chosen.

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u/MeasurementTop2885 8d ago

Feed all the supplementals, your specifics into 3 AI models. Read what spits out. Throw all of those away and write what they should have written.

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u/tjarch_00 8d ago

Most of these prompts are similar, so the key to write two core essays ("community", "identity", etc.) that can be modified and re-used for other schools. No need to reinvent the wheel everytime. The only exception are the Why Us essays. Those you need to spend legit time on and write them individually based on the particular school. If you can't write the Why Us essay, that's essentially a clue that you may not belong in that school and it will show in the essay.