I am struggling to write a captivating essay

lookingforward
Sun, 25 Aug 2019 17:44:07 +0000

“Show, not just tell” means not just saying what it taught you but giving the right examples, so an adcom can see it for him/herself. Eg, not just saying, “And now I am more confident,” but how that manifests in actions. Readers don’t assume or fill in the blanks for you. If you want to show you’re more open to other experiences, give examples of how you’ve done this.

Remember, for colleges that do expect to learn about you from your essay, they want to learn things relevant to life in their community, as they see it, the strengths they want in the kids in their class.

My concern about the finanacial literacy topic is, as a high school kid, you haven’t yet gotten broad experience in that arena.

Try to remember this is for adcoms, who not only have their expectations, but make the admit decisions, based on what you do present. That doesn’t mean it needs to captivate. It does mean it needs to be the right sort of informative. To THEM.