Can I write a somewhat radical common app Essay about environmental movement ?

gibby
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:13:50 +0000

Writing your college essay — and the topic you choose — is unlike any other writing assignment you’ve been given for school. The topic is about YOU, YOU, YOU!

Admissions directors want to know who you are as a person, an individual, a scholar, a roommate, a friend and colleague. They want to get a glimpse into your soul. They want to understand the way you think, what your moral code is and whether you would be an asset to their school. Writing about some off-the-wall topic will make you stand out, but oftentimes not in the way you intended!!!

Have you spent time investigating the personal statement and what has been successful in the past? Here, I’ll start you out with a link: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/how-they-wrote-and-rewrote-their-harvard-admissions-essays/