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Let Other People Critique Your College Admission Essay

 

Every year thousands of students face the challenge of submitting their applications to their dream schools and submitting their masterly crafted College Admission Essay. Before you can ever step on the pavements of the university, an aspiring students acceptance letter may be largely dependent on the students college admission essay. Admission essays and College Application Essays are very vital for one's entry to a good reputable university. The admission essay can be the determining factor, of whether or not one is to be admitted to a certain college or university. Many students never make it to their desired schools not because of their grades or lack of extracurricular activities. They fail because of the admission essay they submitted. An admission essay does not really have to be Nobel Prize for Literature-like essay. It just has to be creative and one of a kind.

Year after year, admissions officers read thousands of College Admission Essays from all over the country (and the world). The probability that they will remember everything a student has written is one to a thousand. The only way that a student could make a mark and imprint his words to the admissions officers' minds is to be unique. This means to say that the essay should be creatively woven to bring out the real persona behind the student. Admissions officers don't want to read essays that are written already in one's resume like achievements and personal particulars. They are interested in what's behind those achievements and grades. They are after the essence and soul of the particular student. Writing about one's experiences is a good material to start one's essay with. This will help bring out the spunk and creative genius in a person while baring his soul for the admissions officers to read.

There are ways in which the student can check if the College Admission Essay he has written can catch another person's attention and to see if the essay is grammatically correct. For one, he could let his family, friends and teachers to read the essay and have them critique it. In this way, the strong and weak points of the essay will be brought up and can be corrected. If more than three persons consulted say that the essay lacks color and life, or if the essay is not coherent and has no unity, then something must be very wrong with it. Don't be offended by the criticisms received for they are only constructive ones and it will also help improve the essay. There's a tendency that a person can't see errors in one's own writings. Therefore, it is important to let others read and critique one's work. In fact, their comments and criticisms may be the very same comments and things that the admission officers will take note of as well.

Preparation for college requires a lot of patience and great deal of imagination. College Admission Essays as well as College Application Essays are the necessary essentials that could make or break a student's future. Remember that one's future is at stake with these essays. Needless to say, when one is writing every word in the paper, he should think about the future. Accordingly, there are three parts of college admission essays: the introduction, body, and conclusion. It's always good to begin one's essay with a bang to hook the readers to continue perusing the essay until the very last period. Make use of humor and wit, but never forget to be honest and true to one's writing.

Author: Thomas Suh
 
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