<p>^^yeah, that’s the key - being sincere</p>
<p>i read someone’s yale essay, and i thought it was very well-written, had colorful imagery, and had very advanced vocabulary… but, it said absolutely nothing about the person who wrote it, and it really is an essay that is mostly fluff - it showed his writing prowess, but other than that, there was no substance to it… the essay doesn’t have to be some pulitzer prize-winning work… it has to be just you… i’ve read some harvard, princeton, and yale essays from years past that weren’t all too extraordinary (in terms of the writing style)… they just really showed who the people writing them were, in their own, every day language (wasn’t too complex… it just flowed with what they were saying… no meaningless fluff in them)… and they got into harvard and princeton and yale… so just make an essay that makes YOU stand out as a person… don’t make the essay a fake representation of you by using over-the-top words, complex descriptions, and whatnot</p>
<p>anyway, that’s my 2 cents worth (actually, that’s my teacher’s 2 cents… i’m just passing it along)</p>