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If you have accepted your admission offer...you are not done yet. Not reading and acting on email can lead to the cancellation of your admission acceptance.
If you have accepted your admission offer...you are not done yet. Not reading and acting on email can lead to the cancellation of your admission acceptance.
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Has your junior started writing college essays yet?
Posted on April 2, 2017 at 4:20 PM |
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It may seem early to think about college essays but now is the time to write them. Spring break is a great time to think about content. Writing a little each week can break this large task into small pieces. Is your junior clueless about where to start? A personal statement of about 500 words is a great place to start. The personal statement is about personal history. Students can demonstrate who they are and how they got that way through a life event or a series of related activities. The essay should be a conversation that introduces them to the reader. How and what they say is left up to them. There are some things to avoid:
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Have you been hyphenating again?
Posted on January 2, 2017 at 1:59 PM |
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Think your teen can do college apps solo?
Posted on September 5, 2016 at 5:39 PM |
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They won't read your admission application essay unless...
Posted on June 26, 2016 at 11:11 PM |
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I've always encouraged students to write an essay draft and then re-write it until it is a work of art that represents their essence. That is a process that takes time. Students who ignore such advice and dash off a quick admission application essay this year might be surprised at what I heard an admission officer say this week. "If an admission essay does not reveal something about a student in the first paragraph, I stop reading". Yikes! If that does not make a student take an essay seriously, I don't know what will. The admission officer explained that she can tell in the first paragraph if she is going to learn anything about a student from an essay. She said she does not like to waste any time during her seven minute application review. Yes, that's right, seven minutes.That is how much time that admission officer can devote to each of the thousands of applications she reviews. News flash, college applications need to be AWESOME, including the essay. Rising seniors need to work hard this summer to write their story and edit it to insure that they take full advantage of the one part of the college application over which they have control and with which they can make the case for their admission. |
Mama don't let your babies submit essays that you wrote
Posted on November 18, 2015 at 1:41 PM |
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There are essays hiding in some of those supplements!
Posted on August 28, 2015 at 11:19 PM |
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Blah, blah, blah boring essays
Posted on August 3, 2015 at 3:37 PM |
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Is optional really optional?
Posted on July 21, 2015 at 11:37 PM |
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Recycling Class Assignments
Posted on September 2, 2014 at 3:23 PM |
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The ideas or details come from saved papers. However, a paper written for class, even a high school class on college application essay development, is rarely the essay to attach to a college application. The reason is that those essays are often written correctly but don't dig deep enough into the identity of the student. They fill in the blank on the college application but fail to convince the admissions reader that this is the student they should admit. |
Common App Word Count Woes
Posted on November 29, 2013 at 9:44 PM |
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