Essay question

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JTC2444

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After you submit essays to the portal can you make edits and changes or is it too late?
 
Very good question...I don't know either, so I'm having my son write the essays separately for review and finalization
 
Think for a moment about why you’d need to make changes after you submit.

Is it because you catch an error or omission? If that’s your concern, then avoid the issue all together by double- and triple-checking your work before submitting. Have a trusted teacher or counselor take a look too.

Is it because you’re expecting some information to emerge later that you might want to add? If that’s the case, then don’t submit until you have that information. Of course, the main guardrail here is the deadline itself, which you don’t want to miss.

I believe most mistakes happen when the candidate is in a rush. So mitigate that. If you’re a procrastinator, manage the task carefully so that you’re not scrambling. If, on the other hand, you want to be an early bird, know that there’s not necessarily a reward or advantage for submitting early. Especially if being early means you make careless mistakes.

As we say on SAF often, submit the best application you can as early as you can. Emphasis on “best.”
 
I had another question similar to this though; if you submit a whole nomination package, but you end up wanting to change your essay can you submit a whole other package?
 
armypanda_ said:
I had another question similar to this though; if you submit a whole nomination package, but you end up wanting to change your essay can you submit a whole other package?
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There are 535 MOCs, each free to run their nomination process as they please. Rather than getting a generic guess here, contact the MOC’s office directly. (Am I detecting a pattern here?)
 
This has to do strictly with the West Point application and portal. The candidate statements. Are you able to edit them once you submit them. I am literally asking for a friend. Long story.
 
JTC2444 said:
This has to do strictly with the West Point application and portal. The candidate statements. Are you able to edit them once you submit them. I am literally asking for a friend. Long story.
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According to the instructions on the portal

"You can save your work and return to it at a later time; however, once you digitally authorize and submit your Candidate Statement, no further updates/ changes are allowed."
 
Here’s what DD and DS did: They wrote their essays in Word. Edited and adjusted and trimmed and added and so forth. When the essays were good to go — with word or character count confirmed — they copied and pasted to the SA application. A couple final checks to make sure everything transferred over, then click. Done. Alleviated the stress of typing directly into the app and potentially losing or accidentally submitting.
 
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