Mention controversial interest in essay - or sanitize it?

fiftyfifty1
Sat, 26 Jul 2025 17:00:27 +0000

OP, I just want you to know that the problem here isn’t you, the problem is the screwy admissions process to America’s most selective colleges.

If you were applying to any of the top universities abroad, they would want you to write a straightforward essay about your proposed course of study and why you wished to study it. There would be no need to spin some nonsense about what you would bring to the flag football team, or why you love blueberry muffins, or a cute story about an essay you wrote when you were 8. In my opinion, it’s all just another hoop to jump through that allows them to justify selecting kids with paid college counselors who teach them the secret handshake to writing these dumb essays. In other words, rich connected students. Luckily for you, you’ve stumbled upon a free source of the secret handshake. Because the advice you have received above is correct, but you were not dumb not to have known it.