I have a bit of an add-on question to this one that might be answerable by possibly BGOs or others who are near to the application process. I sent in a hastily written essay right when I was beginning my application, only to realize that I could have done much better on it. It wasn't awful, but I must admit it was full of the cliche "honor, integrity, etc" that mdn18 spoke of above. I told this to my BGO and he recommended that, since you can add information to your application at any time, I explain honestly that I wrote the essay hastily and did not give a good representation of my writing abilities and desire for attending USNA and then proceed to give them an additional personal essay. I wrote an excellent second essay and sent it to my regional admissions director explaining to her my situation and asking her to add it to my application. How do you think that the admissions board views me doing this? Would they like the fact that I saw where I could do better work and improve on it, or would they dislike the fact that I acted hastily and with poor results and felt confident enough in it to have it represent me? Additionally, do you think that they would essentially throw out the first essay and give much more of the weight to my additional essay that I sent in or not?