How personal is too personal on essays?

collegemom3717
Sat, 05 Oct 2019 01:26:37 +0000

Remember that it’s a sales pitch, not therapy. Their goal is to get a sense of you as a person & some sense of who this person that they might be living with for 4 years. Your goal is to add some color commentary that rounds out the facts of your application (stats, curriculum, etc) and the adult perspective on you (LoRs) to show why their campus would be (to quote MIT Chris ‘a wildly better place with you’).