Extra Points for Being Nice
Dartmouth is trying a new approach: looking for applicants who possess four qualities: smart, nice, accomplished, and aware. How will you incorporate into your college essay?
Dartmouth is trying a new approach: looking for applicants who possess four qualities: smart, nice, accomplished, and aware. How will you incorporate into your college essay?
Did you experience something special or significant this summer? Quickly jot down that epiphany and why to capture that moment…could be the spark for something great!
Some say “prompts don’t matter”. To me, prompts are a means to the ends…good starting points to brainstorm and articulate YOUR life’s experiences. The College Essay Advisors, recently featured in TIME Magazine, do leverage a great technique they call “Backwards Brainstorm”…http://ti.me/2aEbc3B
Steve LeMenager, who worked in the admissions office of Princeton University for 24 years…http://www.businessinsider.com/princeton-admissions-director-biggest-college-application-mistakes-2016-9
Devise an opening line that catches attention and declares this essay will be worthwhile to read Show you have perspective by explaining your “A-ha!” insight about yourself and what it means for you as a person, student, what you will bring to the college community, your post-college future, etc. Be vivid and share details Start brainstorming[…]
“Great stories happen to those who can tell them” ― Ira Glass What is your story about yourself and about your future self? Start by going beyond stating WHO you are to describing WHAT you have done/become and WHY it is important to who you are today and will be. Give admission officers an understanding of[…]