How do I weave a common thread through my essay?

intparent
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 04:28:35 +0000

I don’t think focusing on the list of traits you want to show is a very helpful way to approach your essay. One or two, maybe. Your rec letters should reveal some traits anyway. Possibly your choice of ECs as well. I’d say my D1’s essays reflected her zest and enthusiasm for life (she wrote one essay about being “intchild!” – but with her own first name, of course, with the focus on the exclamation point and how it reflected her personality). Kid #2 went for intellectual and a bit quirky – talked about her attempts from middle school through high school to emulate a famous intellectual literary figure, with some helpful and not so helpful results.

Pick your overriding/theme for your app – be consistent with the rest of the picture they will see, but use the esssy to show some nuance or aspect of that story they don’t see elsewhere.