Essay advice: too edgy?

lookingforward
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:07:12 +0000

I don’t know what colleges we’re talking about, but the essay isn’t meant to be some random reflection on yourself. The more competitive the college targets, the more you want to show traits they want in their class. While skeptical could be interesting, if done well, I think it would be too hard for a 17 year old to know how to balance.

At that age, many kids think just questioning is the point. And it can be. But this is for a college app. Why not just find some nice tale where you took on some challenge (even small) and, as ^ austin says, you realized, grew, turned around, and then did some good for others?

It doesn’t matter if the topic has been used before. Certain themes are common becuase they do work.

Is this the student or the parent?