Will a College Reject the Application Essay If there Are No Spaces?

Will a college reject the application essay if there are no spaces between paragraphs? I already submitted mine. The formatting was messed up in the Coalition app and the PDF shows a single, large block of text. Should I write to the college?

The word creative can mean many things to many people. I am going to post 1 essay that is by any stretch creative. I have then asked questions after the essay (and provided a lot of footnotes). Should you look at this essay as a template? No, but it should inspire you to try something that might be a bit quirky (or even not in good taste). And essay like the one I am including could doom the person who write it iif a certain reader found it offensive or not organized in a traditional way. The people I know who I trust about essays those who have written books on the subject) have found this essay compelling. The following essay was written in response to the University of Chicago's supplementary admission prompt. How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how t relate to UChicago. ***************************************************************** Chicago is not yet stamping out hundreds of angel headed hipsters. That’s corporate unorthodoxy. That’s Facebook execs acting Moly inspired stupid at Burning Man. That’s some epic shit dude. Marshmello me. Really? You try to take your quirkiness seriously. Yes, ok, so it is branded and t-shirted fun comes to die stuff too, but still, I would gladly sit in an unsterilized room in a sketchy Hong Kong mall waiting to get my intellectual tear tattoo. Then I’d show everyone that I’ve killed my share of clichés. I’m ready to take out the Wall Street sleek suits who work too many hours on the verbal exchanges that make their way around the globe in micro-milliseconds, gathering speed as t meme into increased Likes and emoji smiles, backed by healthy steroidal and sugar enhanced back room deal-making selfies and oh so deep data. Yeah, I’ll do it. You know what I do when I hear the oxymoron ‘corporate culture’? I reach for my… Oh never mind, that’d be way too politically incorrect. And yes, I would too. I do dare and double dare you. But take me I’m yours is not me. Just try and you’ll see. I take no prisoners. Not when it comes to words. Not this little girl. Dylan and Ginsberg are over. This new girl’s in town wearing my badge of dishonor proudly, plainly, not insouciantly come hither ironic, that’s too PostMod for me. My red letter days and nights are not Hester inspired. No it’s the red weather of tigers. My quicker blood does not contemplate escape. Put that in your pipe and toke it, my bloody Valentine. In case you haven’t noticed I steal tongues, shove them in my mouth, nothing secret about it, no madwoman and no attic. Borrowing is for timid women. I am not afraid to artiste myself naked in front of a crowd, verb myself right where I’m standing, in the open, smiling, looking right into your Sandberg inspired soul. Here I am, come and get me. I believe in truths, but there is nothing self evident about me or my country. Time to make a choice. Vote your conscience. Vote twice. Vote from the cemetery of Great White Ideas. I’ll win. I will. I want to. I’m ready for my close up. Are you? But you know you want me too. Let’s get consent out in the open. Don’t be afraid. It’s time to make me great again. Pull the lever. I promise never to repent. I promise to electrify you. Me too you, she said. Burning Man ***************************************************************** Questions. Rate this essay from 1-5 with 5 being the highest. What rating did you give it and why? What 3 words would you use to describe this writer? How would you describe the tone of the essay. How would describe the writer's voice? Is the writer smart? Where is the writer from, what kind of economic background? If the writer was a member of an under-represented group would this change your interpretation of the essay? Why or why not? Should it? Is this essay a risk? If so why? Would you tell the writer not to submit this essay to U Chicago? Are there too many references throughout the essay? How are quotations or paraphrases viewed by admission officers? Should admission essays avoid any suggestion of sexuality, violence or politics? What are the political views of the writer? Defend your answer. Would you want this person as your roommate? **************************************************************** Footnotes Angel Headed Hipsters. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, Opening of Allen Ginsburg's Howl Moly. MDMA (aka Ecstacy) Marshmello. EDM star Where fun comes to die some students at U Chicago Burning Man. Burning Man is an annual gathering that takes place at Black Rock City—a temporary community erected in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.(from Wikipedia) Burning Man - Welcome Home Teardrop tatoo. symbolizes the wearer has killed someone Whenever I hear. (“Wenn ich Kultur höre...entsichere ich meinen Browning!”) Hanns Johst (1890-1978) German playwright and Nazi SS officer Hester inspired. Hester Prynne, from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter Red Letter Day.a day that is pleasantly noteworthy or memorable. (Wikipedia) the red weather of tigers Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock Wallace Stevens, 1879 - 1955 The houses are haunted By white night-gowns. None are green, Or purple with green rings, Or green with yellow rings, Or yellow with blue rings. None of them are strange, With socks of lace And beaded ceintures. People are not going To dream of baboons and periwinkles. Only, here and there, an old sailor, Drunk and asleep in his boots, Catches tigers In red weather. quicker blood I never hear the word “Escape” (144) BY EMILY DICKINSON I never hear the word “Escape” Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation – A flying attitude! I never hear of prisons broad By soldiers battered down, But I tug childish at my bars Only to fail again! My Bloody Valentine My Bloody Valentine are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1983. Since 1987, the band's lineup has consisted of founding members Kevin Shields and Colm Ó Cíosóig, with Bilinda Butcher and Debbie Googe. (Wikipedia) no madwoman and no attic The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination is a 1979 book by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, in which Gilbert and Gubar examine Victorian literature from a feminist perspective.(Wikipedia) Borrowing is for timid women T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what t take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. Sandburg Chicago BY CARL SANDBURG Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders. opening lines of the poem believe in truths, but there is nothing self evident Vote twice. Vote from the cemetery Chicago has long been known for voter fraud and for getting votes from people who are dead I'm ready for my closeup Gloria Swanson's famous last lines from the film Sunset Boulevard