r/EssayHelpCommunity

Guys you can comment if you have any updates.

For now 19.08.26: Longlist tab created in website, Institute responded.

Worrying is fine too 😭 you guys can rant below

I KNOW you guys keep refreshing the website 😩. Chill 😭

Go touch grass. And don’t mind me, I will keep refreshing 😇

what time do you guys think they will announce the longlist? and will it be on the website presumably 🤷🏻‍♀️

can't believe it after all this time we finally have some answer as to what's happening!

guys has anyone seen anything about the results cuz they supposed to come out today 😭😭

guys they answered my mail saying they’ll announce the longlist via website tomorrow

ISTG I'VE BEEN SEEING THIS PERSON'S NAME EVERTWHERE ON THIS SUB-- WHO IS IT?! WHAT DID I MISS?!

Like Wdym a bunch of us decided to come to this subReddit about an essay comp and bonded over this one user who’s definitely winning the grand prize? Heezz ur genuinely so goated pls don’t ever change

Ik yall will say "for the experience" but atp why dont you just go to sixflags or something and save the money lmfao and actually have a fun time.

its just an online essay comp its not that deep

Hey folks, just wondering whether ppl will receive an email suggesting that they won a prize, and if so, when??

Disclaimer : this isn’t a hate post, and this isn’t a post taking sides, I’m as confused as everyone is, and just trying to bring my opinion on this.

Hi jli community and essay help community. Everyone (or mostly everyone) has seen the callback post that was deleted on the so called jli interview. And I do kinda have an idea about this. What everyone was calling out was mostly (mostly) that the e-mail was sent during the weekend, and that she didn’t share evidence like a screenshot of the e-mail.

And yes she deleted the post after so it is pretty sus. I’m not saying the post was real, but let’s face the truth.

JLI does send e-mails on the weekends, like announcements, and this can happen mostly because of time zones. And we have to acknowledge that. For example, in past cycles, official shortlist announcement notifications were rolled out directly on weekends, like during the 2025 cycle, applicants said they’d received their official shortlist confirmation emails on Friday night and Saturday, August 15/16, 2025. An applicant in Singapore, the US, or China will not receive it at the same time because of time zones.

Then again, I’m not saying the person who posted that callback got an actual e-mail, but the Reddit community would never actually know if these kinds of e-mails were sent because imagine the results were leaked a month early? JLI would go bonkers.

People say the prize winners supposedly get an e-mail before the ceremony. And I’m 90% sure they’re ask to not leak results, or it would just ruin the ceremony. I’m not entirely sure if they then revoke your prize, but I’m pretty sure nobody would take that bet.

So even if the interview rounds had started, the people who got the essay would be explicitly asked not to share it.

Please also note 17 000 (approx) people got shortlisted. Obviously not everyone in the 17 000 people shortlist pool will get an invitation for another interview IF there even is one.

So, this is just to say that guys, the work you’ve put in is amazing. Trust your work, and whatever happens you should be proud of yourself. Maybe the interviews have started, maybe not, but in any case no one will ever find out. So don’t let any post panic you, trust the process.

Thoughts?

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Dear fellow amazing talented essay writers who applied to the Royal Institute of Philosophy Think Essay Prize 😄,

This essay competition is bull****ing us >:(

I suggest we all in unison email these scumbags that if they were planning on stealing our ideas for solving their dilemmas, then they should at least give some kind of long list and winner acknowledgment so we add this stoopu award to our applications profiles.

We must do this, they are seriously thinking we are a joke or smth. And if we didn’t get long listed just know they are a bunch of old farts who couldn’t understand us

You all are amazing :)