College Essays: What to write about? Help!!!!

alp2018
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:31:30 +0000

I am currently a rising senior in high school and am trying to get all of my college essays done before school starts.

I’ve done so much research on this topic; however, I am still quite lost on what I should write about. I feel so misguided. I’ve read many essays online that have worked and it seems that most of them are small anecdotes in the applicants life that they are using to showcase personality traits. Although, I am a bit lost as there are obviously so many small little anecdotes in my 17 years that I could write about. I think that people take this approach to make their essays more interesting to read but I’m just afraid of choosing the wrong one or at least not choosing the story that could have been better.

I’m also not even sure if writing about a little story in my life is better than writing about a larger event or elaborating on something that is in my resume. On one hand you can go into major detail and use a descriptive writing style, but on the other hand writing about a big event in your life is more traditional and the classic approach.

So I guess in summary, the problems at hand are 1) I don’t know which direction to go in when writing these essays and 2)I don’t know specifically what the subject matter should be.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. This process has been extremely frustrating as I feel that I am a pretty good creative writer and would like to showcase my skills. If I could only have a bit of guidance and not be so blind in this I probably would have them done by now! haha