Best thing i can do...

ricegal
Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:15:33 +0000

The best thing you can do to make yourself stand out more is to have something you really like doing and show through your essays and/or awards that you spent a lot of time and energy on it. It can be academic (as in winning math competitions at the state level) or it can be non-academic (such as being volunteer of the year for your community service organization). If you don’t have an award then your essay can talk about how you LOVE what you are doing, how it led you to choose your major, etc., but you better have the time commitment to back up your essay. I think colleges want to see people who live life with a purpose other than just to get into college. They figure that even if the person changes her purpose later, she has still shown that she can apply herself wholeheartedly to something of her own choosing.