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For your College Bound Kid: 3 Application Essay Tips

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Parents to high school children who plan to attend college know that college application season is around the corner. A lot of decisions are made based on the application essay. It can be the difference between an acceptance, rejection or wait list.

College admission professional, Elizabeth Dankoski, has helped hundreds of high achieving students get into the college of their dreams (75% are accepted into top 20 schools) with tips for how to write a “Harvard-Worthy” college application essay. She offers for our tips for readers with college-bound children for creating top notched college essays:

  1. Tell a deeply personal story about profound change: “There’s nothing more important you can do in your essay than tell a deeply personal story. Your essay is your opportunity to show the colleges something they can’t glean from looking at your SAT scores or GPA or activity sheet. This is the only way you’re going to differentiate yourself from every other student — by telling a story that highlights something deeply personal about you.
  2. Make it vivid: “If you want your reader to connect with your essay, your opening needs to leap off the page. Try to get as many senses involved as you can: sight, sound, smell, taste, feel… Once you’ve set the stage like this, a few colorful details woven throughout your essay will keep your story alive and full of spark.

  3. Offer a bit of mystery at the end: “One of the hardest things my students struggle with is the ending to their essays. Either they feel like they have to tie everything up in a neat bow or they end up with overly generalized and clichéd language. Remember that you don’t need to have everything figured out. It’s okay if you don’t fully understand how to make sense of your experiences. What’s important is to make it clear that you’re willing to stay with this confusion until the answers become clear.

“When you allow a bit of mystery into the end, you let the reader know that you’re okay with not knowing everything. That shows maturity, and it lets the colleges know that you’re in a perfect place to dive into the complicated issues you’re going to face in your college classes.”

God speed parents! And kids!

 

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