Make supplement light hearted if CA essay is more 'intense'?

TannJ30
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:16:56 +0000

In my opinion, your essay needs to be as blatantly honest as possible. If you think you can write a stellar supplemental essay based on a more serious topic, then go right ahead. There is no point writing a light hearted essay if it isn’t truly you cause whatever you write needs to be written with the passion of truly portraying yourself.

I’m also merely an applicant but I’ve taken a gap year due to setbacks and so I’ve done this process before and gotten acceptance/rejection letters before. So, I may be wrong when I say this but Yale doesn’t only like students who have multifaceted personalities. They also like students who have a single or dominant few aspects that define them. Just be yourself. If you’re serious by nature, then so be it, don’t try to change the way you depict yourself purely because you believe that’s what they might want to read.

You want them to want YOU, not who you think you ought to be for them!