my common app essay

StercusAccidit
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:49:09 +0000

Is there any way you could possibly organize your essay, which would be about your diverse family, around a single moment? A family gathering of some sort? Or any conflicts which arose from having such a diverse family which you might have been caught in the middle of? You might be able to get across the fact that you will bring diversity to the college by the essay you’re talking about, but just saying “my relatives are like this, and because of that, I’m like this” might not be the most exciting and memorable essay. And you want your essay to be memorable, I think.

To me, reading an analysis of how your family’s diversity affected you would be a dry read. But if you could somehow provide the same analysis with an interesting (or craaaazy) anecdote, you could SHOW me what you mean, as well as telling me.

I don’t know. That’s just me. And I think that would be a compromise between the prompt and what you’re talking about. Instead of talking only generally or only about one experience, you’d be writing about an experience, and then sort of zooming out onto the general.

Eh. If I make no sense, I’m sorry.