<p>Wow, so many factors in what and how you write have the potential to boil down to what becomes either stellar acceptance or flat-out rejection.</p>
<p>So what kind of sundry tips have people collected from admissions with respect to essays?</p>
<p>Subjects vary! Like..</p>
<p>How much humor is acceptable, especially if a writer has always managed to make it appropiate and on-topic? Is "pun intended" a bad thing to say when you use one?</p>
<p>FORMALITIES! "Mom" sounds too casual, yet "mother" sounds uptight. Which way to go?</p>
<p>When tying together different events regarding one common topic, at what point are you digressing from what's important and merely adding distracting fluff?</p>