Explaining College Hiatus to Competitive Transfer Admissions

collegemom3717
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:51:26 +0000

Tgerney:

use a solid portion of the transfer essay as a chance to explain my breaks

imo, that’s not a good use of the essay. Your essay should demonstrate why you are a good fit for the school you are applying to- lining up what you bring to the party with what they have to offer.

The hardest part of a personal essay is having enough distance to have perspective. From where you are, each of those starts and stops came with a lot of turbulence in your world. From an AO perspective, starts and stops are a normal thing with applicants who are coming from a mix of CC + work- even in non-Covid times. Try not to see them as something you need to explain or justify, and as simply part of how things played out.