{"id":27123,"date":"2018-06-04T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backtobasicslearning.com\/?p=27123"},"modified":"2018-11-13T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:02:44","slug":"words-of-wisdom-or-how-to-write-the-college-application-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/words-of-wisdom-or-how-to-write-the-college-application-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of wisdom… or how to write the college application essay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CollegeDon\u2019t leave your college choice\u00a0up to chance!<\/em>\u00a0The college essay is a crucial part of your admissions package\u2026 and the one piece that busy students most often overlook or rush through. What will help move your college admission application package to the top of the stack?\u00a0 A well written, thoughtfully edited, interesting,\u00a0and memorable<\/em>\u00a0essay.<\/p>\n

Sound like a tall order? It doesn’t have to be.<\/em> Here are 7 tips from the experts on how to write your best college application essay.<\/p>\n

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  1. Petersons<\/a>: “Analyze the prompt thoroughly. Take three minutes to think about the prompt. If needed, divide the prompt into phrases and look at each aspect. Why would the admissions officers ask this prompt? What do you think they want to know? How does that information relate to your ability to excel in college?”<\/li>\n
  2. USA Today<\/a>: “Put yourself in the school\u2019s position. At the end of the day, colleges want to accept someone who is going to graduate, be successful in the world and have the university associated with that success. In your essay, it is vital that you present yourself as someone who loves to learn, can think critically and has a passion for things\u2014anything.”<\/li>\n
  3. The College Board<\/a>: “Give your essay focus by figuring out how the question relates to your personal qualities and then taking a specific angle. Make sure everything you write supports that viewpoint.”<\/li>\n
  4. Princeton Review<\/a>: “Don’t just recount\u2014reflect!\u00a0Anyone can write about how they won the big game or the summer they spent in Rome. When recalling these events, you need to give more than the play-by-play or itinerary. Describe what you learned from the experience and how it changed you.”<\/li>\n
  5. Great College Advice<\/a>: “Grab some attention.\u00a0As you write your college essay, you have to consider your audience. You have to remind yourself that the poor, tired admissions officer who is reading it may have read 50 other essays in the preview nine hours. He is tired. He is cold (it\u2019s the dead of winter and he is huddled up next to his electric space heater. He is bored stiff.\u00a0So you have to do something to wake him up. Grab his attention. Make him sit up and take notice: \u201cThis essay is going to knock your socks off, buster!\u00a0In order to jolt him upright in his chair, you have to hit him from the opener with some tidbit that will force him to say, \u201chmmm\u2026I think essay may actually be worth reading carefully all the way through.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. College Express<\/a>:\u00a0These are some bad college application essay #FAILs waiting to happen:\u00a0Writing your application essay in a foreign language,\u00a0The poem,\u00a0The edgy rebel,\u00a0The arts-and-crafts project,\u00a0The overshare,\u00a0The big picture,\u00a0The sob story, and The sports-related application.<\/li>\n
  7. Harvard College Connection<\/a>: “The personal essay is the only place in your entire application where the admissions officers have the ability to hear your own voice. While a lot of applications have similar academics or extracurricular activities in them, none of them of them have you in them. So, make yourself shine out through your essay.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Need more help? Back to Basics in Wilmington, Nationwide offers a Summer College Admissions Essay Writing Workshop!<\/h3>\n

    College Essay Writing Workshop (11th \u2013 12th)\u00a0<\/strong>This workshop will help move your application package to the top of the stack with a well written, thoughtfully edited, interesting,\u00a0and memorable<\/em>\u00a0essay. $99<\/p>\n