Essay help!

Perhaps my first reaction is that you should be genuine.

This leads to a question: Why are you applying to Stanstead College?

Another thing that comes to mind for me: Stanstead College is in a small bilingual town right near the US/Canadian border. I am pretty sure that there is a library nearby that is famous for having been intentionally built crossing the US/Canada border (it was originally built by a couple with dual nationality). I have read that the majority of the population speaks both English and French, and while according to Wikipedia there are a significant number of people who speak only one of these two languages, it is hard for me to believe that there are many residents who are high school age who can’t speak at least passably well in both languages. Thus attending Stanstead College would put you in a slightly foreign country (assuming that you are from the USA), and in a largely bilingual community. What does this mean to you?

By the way, I used to know someone reasonably well who came from a bilingual family. His mother was native French Canadian and his father was native English Canadian. He spoke both with equal ease. His first memory was that there are two words for everything. His second memory was that the words come in groupings, and some people only know one of the two groupings. You might very well meet some people in Stanstead who have similar memories. Would this be interesting, or would you not care?

This being a small town in Canada, you might expect there to be a hockey rink and a curling club, and apparently you would not be disappointed on either. Does this matter to you?