How to Write a Good Application Essay

<p>I think a reasonable structure would be:</p>

<ol>
<li>Your Beginning</li>
<li>Your Spark</li>
<li>Why you are applying for thing</li>
<li>What will you do with information from thing</li>
<li>Your Future</li>
</ol>

<p>For example, imagine if you are an environmental science type person going into business program.</p>

<ol>
<li><p>The beginning would be how your environment [literally] was something that was very damaged [as it is in my case] but also very close to your heart. From there, you began to work with/at environmental companies.</p></li>
<li><p>At one of these companies, you discovered how business had the potential to make change and how that was what you were really interested in. From there you began to look further into business, especially alternative energy venture capitalism</p></li>
<li><p>You are now applying to Generic Environmental Business Program because of your will to change the world by applying your business knowledge with your environmental ‘duty’</p></li>
<li><p>By going to Generic Environmental Business Program, you will learn about the symbiotic relationship with the two most important things in your life as well as be in a better position to fully act on your desires and make a real difference in the world</p></li>
<li><p>Armed with your environmental and business knowledge that you will learn at G.E.B.P, you will go into Alternative Energy Investments, intern at Random Company and apply the knowledge that you have learned into making the world a better overall place.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>This is what I think would be good for scholarships and other application-essay based things, but I’d love to hear more from you guys!</p>

<p>5 views and no responses? </p>

<p>Any comments are helpful…</p>

<p>Meh. Maybe for scholarships but not for a personal statement that’s supposed to tell the reader something about you. Essays about “making a difference” tend to grossly oversimplify huge world problems. </p>

<p>I tend to write a narrative and then at the very end talk a little about what I’m applying to. Not the best style ever, but it’s worked for me in the past and it’s different from most “I want to broaden my horizons”-esque essays.</p>

<p>“making the world a better overall place.”</p>

<p>Random comment: I don’t like the word “overall” because it just doesn’t fit anywhere…what exactly is an “overall place”? It sounds like where my mom bought her clothes in the '70s.</p>

<p>I chuckled a bit halcyon. :slight_smile:
I don’t know anything about writing a good application essay, but that’s a pretty good guideline I guess.</p>

<p>I had to write an application essay to get into my school. The prompt was fairly easy so I don’t have any advice.</p>