How do I write a great college essay?

Lulee1
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:18:14 +0000

In our lives we all have experiences that affect us in very meaningful ways. Choose one of your meaningful experiences and write about it as if you are telling someone what happened and why you were affected or how it changed you. Do not try to make what you are writing about profound or bigger than what it was. You don’t need to do that. It was important to you and that is what is important. Many years ago when my husband was applying to graduate business schools, he wrote an essay about a hike that he had taken years earlier with a group of close friends. I still remember how he described the sense of joy he felt with the people he hiked with on that day, the sun and the flowers on the mountainside. It seems small, but it represented him perfectly.