Writing an essay about being an expat?

collegemom3717
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 22:11:16 +0000

So, here’s the thing: remember the purpose of the essay? it is a way of adding something to your application that is not obvious from the rest of the application- something that will make an AO think ‘ah, this is somebody we really want to have be part of this community’.

Guessing that your parents reckon that having lived overseas for 2 years is the most ‘unique’ thing about you. The thing is - it’s not that unique. More importantly, it is pretty half your life ago! what have you done since?

IF you can link that in some interesting way to who you are now- that shows how you took what you did with that experience and draws some lines to the present (ie, to things that you have done that you had control over, v something that happened to you) and perhaps dotted lines to the future that might be a worthwhile essay. Otherwise, imo keep looking.