I like to think they'll just remove it, since, as someone mentioned before, the lack of a diversity essay may have led people to write about it for the extra essay. That's partially what I did.
At the same time, they made a conscious effort to add it after well over a week. I do not see why they would add it just to have it removed again. What makes me mad is that it is one of the most expensive secondaries ($130). If you expect us to pay that much you better have your **** together. Not a good look.
There is no downside. I sent an email and encourage others to do the same. If they see multiple people had this issue then they will make note of it and address everyone rather than responding to every single person individually. I did this with UCSD too, a few dozen of us emailed to clarify their letter requirements and they ended up changing the letter requirement.
I just emailed them too. I think everyone should do the same, they're only going to address it if they realize that many were affected.
Agreed logically they will know that all applicants before July 17th didn't have this, and will send out an email apologizing for updating the secondary questions (probably saying its an accident) and that no one has to answer the question.
I guess they could technically just unsubmit all of our applications
As someone who looked at this thread during prewriting and saw that they took the prompt out, so completely deleted everything I had written for it.....I really hope they just decide not to use it
Do they even have an update option on their app? I think they say that if we have to update them on what we're doing next year we are supposed to email them. I don't think they have the patience to go through thousands of emails just to attach a short paragraph on why we're diverse to each application (at least I wouldn't)
Isn’t the missing prompt “when you were the other” not a diversity essay?
they do have an update option, but the missing prompt was the diversity essay. I (and im sure many others) put our diversity essay in for the "additional comments" because that third essay wasn't available. they would have to allow resubmissions if they wanted to address that aspect of the problem
I may have interpreted it wrong but I though it was a diversity prompt just worded differently. Especially because they mention social justice and diversity at the beginning of the prompt
Its like slightly different, you shouldn't just copy and paste a diversity prompt because you have to make sure you're talking about being "the other", but yeah it will hit on many of the same themes as a typical diversity response
I took a different approach for that question since I had to address something but that does seem to be an issue. Do people who already wrote a general diversity essay but not the one for the prompt have to write another one? This is definitely going to be a big mess for the admissions office
Sameish. I used it as a combination adversity/diversity, but being Low SES/first gen really isn’t an “other” type of essay. My other topic is completely different.
I dunno. I think maybe a NYT article will be needed before it gets their attention.
I like your timeline but also things don't take that fast in these admission offices so I would give it at least an hour or two more (if not 3 weeks)
Should someone call?
Yeah, maybe calling will be more effective?
lol I bet it will be tonight or tomorrow morning
I emailed them over the weekend and called just now with no answer. I think as many people as possible should contact them so that they know this isn't just a couple of us who are affected.
make sure you check "all mailboxes" instead of "all inboxes" because mine didn't show up in my normal inbox :/
I agree. A lot of people had it show up in their promotions folder instead of their inbox
According to their auto reply on their email, the admissions staff are still working remotely and the phones won’t be answered.
Yeah, I agree. I think it would be an administrative nightmare to ask all the applicants to write the third essay considering that
Perfectly fine with writing it, but would not want to be put back into queue for application review!
Interesting, my essays are still locked, and I cannot edit them. Not totally sure to be honest
I'm not going to touch it at the moment. I think the best course of action is to just wait until we have some concrete communication from the school.
Submitted 7/7, mine is now open again too. I'm guessing they're gonna send us an email soon telling us they reopened the portal so we can all do the new essay...
Status still has my original submission date.
Just checked mine too, I can now write the essay too
You got it
You have got to be kidding me.
Unbelievable.
Jokes on them, I just found a typo in another essay they’ll never know about
