Violence in essays?

lookingforward
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:41:08 +0000

The college app essay is a chance to tell about you- especially how some event, realization, challenge, whatever, turned around your life or your perspective. You show not just some career idea, but what you have done in the interim. Eg, you now do peer counseling or raise funds for a shelter, mentor kids, etc, because of how the realities affected you. I lived in a “dead deer on the hood of the Chevy” place for a while and you could certainly inject humor. I’d skip the most awful realities- you’re writing about your transformation, not a news article that needs to be a complete picture.