Essay Writing: Start Early and Be Yourself
- Posted by Sarah Ziegler on June 23rd, 2009 in Admissions, Articles of Interest
Summer is here, and for many students, now is the perfect time to begin brainstorming and writing college essays. Although most colleges have not yet released their applications for the upcoming admissions cycle, the topics for a student’s core personal essays are already available. Instructions for UC’s two personal statement essays for freshman and transfer applicants are available here. For the nearly 400 colleges that accept the Common Application, students can preview the essay prompts here.
Application essays serve a unique and important role in admissions as the only piece of a student’s application that conveys his or her own voice and experience. Academic records, standardized test scores, teacher recommendations, and even interviews tell part of the story, but only in essays can students speak directly to admissions officers in their own words.
For students struggling to begin or unsure what direction to take with their writing, The Choice, a blog from New York Times education writer and author Jacques Steinberg, offers an insider’s view of what makes an essay successful by Martha Merrill, dean of admissions at Connecticut College.
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