Create your own prompt. . . ?

ottothecow
Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:43:03 +0000

I wanted my essay to explain some holes in my application so I created a prompt dealing with bad things that turn out to be good things.

I wrote about how stupid scheduling kept me from ever taking an advanced social studies class which meant I couldn’t attempt the IB diploma. My social studies classes are quite boring, but this change made room in my scedule for some fun electives (namely jewerly) which I absolutely fell in love with and will have completed through level 4 by graduation.

It might be a little generic of a prompt but its different from the “greatest life experiance” type prompts and it allowed me to both show why I didnt take any advanced social studies and why there were various slacker classes (jewelry 1 would be the class that they stick you into when you simply decide not to register for classes). I think the way I wrote it helped show that I really just want to learn and that I want to learn about a multitude of things.

They accepted me EA so they must have liked it (and I dont think they ever said it was risky to write #5 to me)