Every college would like to know the person you are before they accept you as a student. Academic is something they can track through your score cards, but knowing your background, culture they can very well determine whether you would fit in their academic structure and can also devise a plan of improvement for your career. Hence personal essays come in to picture where in they look for the personal traits which the students mention in the essays. As all fingers in our hand are different and have a different use in the same way each and every person is unique in his /her way. It is not necessary that every student will have special talents or tragedies to speak about. If we focus on all small experiences we have had in life that can make each of us unique if we can articulate them in a proper way. Mostly colleges are looking at how you visualize your experience and how you speak about it. Having said. that let us use below mentioned tips to make our life easy while writing these essays.
• Open with an anecdote: Since numerous applications are received by admission officers, they won’t have much time to go through the details of the essays. To make your essay effective start the essay with a moment which has made a long lasting effect on you. This basically enables in placing a hook for the officer to go into the details as short stories are quite influential. Try to relate the event on your personality and how it has changed you.
• Put yourself in school’s position: At the end of the day everyone wants to be successful and want to get associated with successful persons. Show your inclination and hunger to learn and develop yourself to be successful.
• Stop trying too hard: Don’t put much effort to impress the officers. Be very straight forward and precise. Need not use any flowery sentence and be aware of self. The essays should be short, simple and interesting by smartly mentioning key points.
• Ditch the dictionary: Don’t try to show off your vocabulary with numerous words from the dictionary. The essay should be as simple as if someone is talking in person to you. The essay should work as a marketing document for you.
• Write what is important to you and not to them: Begin your essay keeping in mind if you are given 5 mins of time to speak them in person how would you put your words and keep the listener engaged. The officers are in want of sincerity and look at how logically you are placing your words.
• Be natural and not fugitive: It is not necessary that everyone has gone through hardship. If you have not, then there is no point in creating an imaginary story since you do not have experience. College is mostly looking at how you collate your thoughts and visualize the consequences of such events. Creating an imaginary story would tend to be like pretending someone you are not.
• Follow the instructions: Every college has a unique format and we should respect that while writing the personal essays. We should answer to what a college asks for and not send a generic answer.
• Use the space to tell what your application can’t: Administrative officers are quite busy and hence won’t have time to go through every detailed essay and connect the dots. Just imagine you are speaking to an officer in person and he asks you what else I should know about you? Your essay should depict that piece of information as well but should be within the context.
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