UC Personal Statement and Common App Essay

ZooeyKing
Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:45:29 +0000

Here is a problem that I see for you. You have said that you pretty much summarized your life in the first 1st prompt, which asks you to describe the world you come from so based on that, it seems like your 2nd prompt might just reiterate what you wrote in your 1st one, which will be very redundant. You can probably separate parts of what you wrote in prompt 1 into prompt 2, which is what I suggest you do. Furthermore, you can easily use any of your UC prompts for you commonapp “topic of your choice” essay. If you need help proof-reading your essay that you have thus far, you can ask for it on the “College Essay” section of CC. Don’t actually post your essay- obviously. Make sure you choose CC’ers who have plenty of posts, have been members for a while, and are preferably college students or parents.