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What Your Admissions Essay Absolutely Must Be About!

Over the years when I’ve helped students with their writing and their preparation for college one of the things that has always amazed me is that many students have no idea what their college admission essay should be about. Simply put the essay is about YOU. No matter what the question you are writing about is, no matter how strangely or obliquely the question is phrased YOU MUST WRITE ABOUT YOU.

Although the admissions essay is becoming more important every year, it still is NOT the most important part of your application packet. For the vast majority of colleges and universities, the admissions office will use the essay as a tiebreaker. If two students are very close in grades, character, recommendations, and test scores, the student with the better essay has a better chance of being admitted. The admission official is looking for something that will push the applications over into the pile he or she will recommend for acceptance.

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How to Write Winning College Admission Essays

500 words. I feel it is a bit unfair to measure a person’s worth in so many words. A well written 500 words can radically alter your career and your life. Yes, I am talking about the dreaded college admission essays. It may sound simplistic but these 500 words are the dividing line between acceptance and rejection to your dream course. Even excellent test scores count for nothing if you are not able to express your individuality in an essay. The topic is irrelevant until you are able to display remarkable skills to paint a perfect picture in the reader’s thoughts.

Thought there is no guaranteed way to write a breathtaking piece, below, I am enumerating a few tips that will prove valuable when you write college admission essays:

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Admission Essays – Why They Are Important

Every year hundreds of otherwise eligible candidates get rejected leaving both candidates and their parents wondering what went wrong. The answer to this puzzle may not at first be apparent, but a little analysis will reveal that the candidates did not pay due attention to the admissions paper.

Ask any admissions officer and you will learn that one third the time spent in evaluating an application is spent evaluating the admissions treatise. Remember high SAT scores, high grades and other qualifying activities are often achieved by hundreds, if not thousands of aspiring candidates. When evaluating candidates with similar qualifications, it is the quality of the admissions paper that makes the big difference between acceptance and rejection.

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