Laura DiFiore, the founder of FreSch! Free Scholarship Search, has seen many mistakes. Some have prompted her to separate essays into three piles: the good, the bad and the ugly. Those essays designated as the ugly are put into a box with a tombstone drawn on it.—Gen and Kelly
Bathroom humor. One applicant wrote an entire essay about excrement. “It met the requirements of originality but not creativity. It was gross.”
Spelling mistakes. “While some mistakes are tolerated, if
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