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COLLEGE ESSAY
Free College Essay tips
Understanding What Colleges Are Looking For
The college essay gives you a chance to tell a school about you. Other parts of your college essay application -- grades, scores, and recommendations -- show what you've done. Your college essay reveals who you are. It can be a strong voice in your favour and a way to stand out from the rest.
Self-analysis
Self-analysis isn't easy, and it can be especially hard to do at this point in your life, when many of your goals and plans are unsettled.
You may already have confronted this problem at college interviews. College essay admission people ask, "Tell us about yourself" or "What are your hopes and aspirations?" These are questions that require some thought, and they're pretty hard. The college essay is a chance to demonstrate which questions you've asked yourself and what answers you've found.
Writing evaluation
Your college essay is going to be examined as a clue to your writing ability by an audience who is both critical and crucial. For example, Columbia University lets you know what they're looking for right on the application: "Please remember that we are concerned not only with the substance of your prose but with your writing as well."
After all, a very large part of your performance and evaluation in college will be based on college essays and written tests.
Short-answer questions
Short-answer questions in your college essay that ask for only a paragraph response should be approached with the same care and attention you gave to the full-length college essay. The writing process is the same. Just reduce the introduction and conclusion to a sentence each. Try to make your topic vivid in a few lines and never sacrifice specifics.
Writing samples
Some schools require or encourage submission of an academic college essay or writing sample. There's no reason not to send a school essay. Choose a strong performance (a B+ or better) and a paper on a not-too-esoteric topic. Do not send a fifteen-page term paper or a collation of library research. A short, illuminating college essay on one poem, one lab experiment, or one incident in history, would be a good choice.
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