So, as some of you saw in the post that was up briefly yesterday, I was nominated to the Presidential Scholars Program, which in essence means that I have very good SAT scores.

To apply to be a Presidential Scholar, one must fill out all of the usual information about extracurriculars and community service, and have your school send in a form about you. Then you have to write six essays, with the shortest being about 425 words long (with the note “Please be concise”). For the most part, they are similar to questions on typical college and scholarship applications, but I can’t use any of my other writings because of the length.

The highlight, though, has to be the actual “Candidate’s Essay” (the others are apparently only considered “short answer” questions). It has a character limit of 10,600 characters. If you do the math, that works out to about 3 pages of single-spaced text.

Luckily, upon looking at the paper form, I discovered that they only have just under two pages of space, so my essay probably won’t be that long.

In any case, I think the term white elephant applies.

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