Tips on writing an Admission Esssay!!

So I did some research on writing an admission essay, and I came along a packet that had some great tips I wanted to share with you guys I hope these tips help you out!!(in case you guys dont know what and admission essay is, its an essay you have to write when you want to get accpeted to a college) Enjoy thee tiips!!!

Writing the Essay

Even seemingly topics can be made into exceptional admissions essays with an innovative approach. In writing the essay you must bear in mind your goals: to persuade the admissions officer that you are extremely worthy of admission and to make the admissions officer aware that you are more than a GPA and a standardized score, that you are a real- life. intriguing personality.

Unfortunately, there is no surefire step-by-step method to writing a good essay. Every topic requires a different treatment since no two essays are alike. However, we have complied the following list of tips that you should find useful while writing your admission essay.

1. Answer the Question
You can follow the next 10 steps, but if you miss the question, you will not be admitted to any institution.

2. Be Original
Even seemingly boring essay topics can sound interesting if creatively approached. If writing about a gymnastics competion you trained for, do not start you essay: "I worked long hours for many weeks to train for XXX competion." Consider an opening like, "Every moring I awoke at 5:00 to sweat,tears, and blood as I trained on the uneven bars hoping to bring the state gymnastics trophy to my hometown."

3. Be Yourself
Admissions officers want to learn about you and your writing ability. Write about something meaningful and describe your feelings, not necessarily your actions. If you do this, your essay will be unique. Many people travel to foreign countries or win competitions, but your feelings during these events are unique to you. Unless a philosophy or societal problem has interested you intensely for years, stay away from grand themes with which you have little personal experience.

4. Don't Thesaurize Your Composition
For some reason, students continue to think big words make good essays. Big words are fine, but only if they are used in the appropiate context. Think Hemingway.

5. Use Imagery and Clear, Vivid Prose
If you are not adept with imagery, you can write and excellent essay without it, but its not easy. The application essay lends itself to imagery since the entire essay requires your experiences and supporting details. Appeal to the five senses of the asmissions officers.

6. Spend the Most Time on Your Introduction
Expect admissions officers to spend 1 to 2 minutes reading your essay. You must used your introduction to grab their interest from the beginning. You might even consider completely changing your introduction after writing your body paragraphs.
- Don't Summarize in your Introduction. Ask yourself why a reader would want to read your entire essay after reading your introduction. If you summerize, the admissions officer need not read the rest of essay.
- Create Mystery or Intrigue in your Introduction. It is not necessary or recommended that your first sentence give away the subject matter. raise question in the minds of the admissions officers to force them to read on. Apeal ot their emotions to meake them relate to your subject matter.

7. Use Transition
Applications contine to ignore transition to their own detriment. You must use transition within paragraphs and especially between paragraphs to preserve the logical flow of your essay. Transition is not limited to phrases like "as a result, in addition, while . . ., since . . . , etc." but includes repeating key words and progressing the idea. Transition provides the intellectual architecture to argument building.

8. Conclusions are Critical
The conclusion is your last chance to persude the reader or impress upon them your qualifications. In the conclusion, avoid summary since the essay is rather short to begin with; the reader should not need to be reminded of what you wrote 300 words beforehand. Also do not use stock phrases like "in conclusion, in summary, to conclude, etc." You should consider the following conclusions:
- Expand upon the broader implications of your discussion.
- Consider linking your conclusion to your introduction to establish a sense of balance by reiterating introductory phrases.
- Redefine a term used previously in your body paragraphs.
- End with a famous quote that is relevent to your arguement. Do not TRY to do this, as this approach is overdone. This should come naturally.
- Frame your dicussion within a larger context or show that your topic has widespread appeal.
- Remember, your essay need not be so tidy that you can answer why your little sister died or why people starve in Africa---you are not writing a "sitcom"--- but should forge some attempt at closure.

9. Give Your Draft to Others
Ask editors to read with these questions in mind:
- What is the essay about?
- Have I used active voice verbs wherever possible?
- Is my sentece structure varied or do I use all long or short sentences?
- Do you detect any cliches?
- Do I use transition appropriately?
- Do I use imagery often and does this make the essay clearer and more vivid?
- Whats the best part of the essay?
- What about the essay is memorable?
- Whats the worst part of the essay?
- What parts of the essay need elaboration or are unclear?
- What parts of the essay do not support your main arguement or are immaterial to your case?
- Is every single sentence crucial to the essay? This MUST be the case.
- What does the essay reveal about your personality?
- Could anyone else have written this essay?
- How would you fill in the following blank based on the essay: "I want to accept you to this college because our collger needs more ______."

10. Revise, Revise, Revise
Revise, Revise, Revise. You are only allowed so many words; use them wisely. If H.D Thoreau couldnt write a good essay without revision, neither will you. Delete anything in the essay that does not relate to your main argument. Do you use transition? Are your introduction and conclusion more than summaries? Did you find every single grammatical error?

Have your Essay Professionally Edited. You take SAT Prep courses and spend hours with college counselors. Consider showing the same care with your admissions essay by submitting your essay to a professional editor.

So here are the helpful tips for you guys!!!! =]
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