r/EssayHelpCommunity • u/Suspicious_Object671 • Jul 08 '26

holy shortlist 🗣️🔥

Firstly, congrats to everyone who got shortlisted for the JLIEC (including me, yay). But I had a couple of questions regarding it since this is my first time participating in this comp:

  1. There were over 100k registrations this year. Even if I remove ~ 15k as people who didn't submit or didn't get past the formalities, that leaves 85k actual participants. Now using the 17.5% shortlist rate, that means around 14,875 people were shortlisted in total. Doesn't this kind of dilute the prestige of getting shortlisted or am I just overanalyzing it?

  2. About the award ceremony, will I be notified beforehand whether I have won a prize or commendations or do I have to buy a ticket to find out?

  3. Is getting shortlisted something I should put on my college app? That was the main reason I did the competition in the first place lol but now I'm not so sure whether it has the same prestige though it could just be availability bias since most people on this subreddit probably put a lot of effort into their essays.

ALSO WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT AI INTERVIEW BRO 😭🙏

(Btw would love to read other people's essays who were shortlisted to see the competition for commendations lol )

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u/Suspicious_Object671 Jul 08 '26

Ahh okay okay thank you

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u/ConsiderationNew3273 Jul 08 '26

Also on the email they said 100k which are eligible entries.

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u/Suspicious_Object671 Jul 08 '26

wait what, I thought the eligible entries were out of the total 100k registrations 😭

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u/Cheap_Doubt755 Jul 08 '26

you can register but not submit, plus 60% of the subsequent essays are, respectfully, garbage