College Admission Essays
By admin On June 11th, 2009
If applying to college is not scary enough, having to write multiple, knowledgeable college admission essays on top of that just puts the icing on the cake. By the time you apply to a college, it is too late to raise your GPA significantly. If you have an SAT score, that is pretty much set in stone as well. It is also way too late to change the number of extracurricular activities you took place in. This being said, you only have two other ways to add any sort of significant impact to the application packet you will send in to the schools of your choice.One of the ways in which you can submit other documents that will boost your standing, is to submit excellent letters of recommendation. Try to ask teachers who know you on a more personal level, and teachers who know your academic tendencies very well. While you can choose the people who write these letters of recommendation, you cannot choose what they will actually choose to write about you. You also have no control over how persuasively they might say it. Make sure you know your teachers well enough, and on a good enough level that they will give you a very supportive letter of recommendation. They need to have your best interests at heart.
The second way to give additional impact to your application packets is completely and utterly under your own control; writing and delivering outstanding college admission essays. The essays that you write give you the best chance in standing out from the hundreds of thousands of other applicants all competing for the same spot that you are. The college admission essays that you will write will give you the best chance among all the other ways to get past the dreaded “almost good enough” GPA and similar “not so outstanding” SAT scores.If you are wondering why it is getting harder and harder to get into some of the more elite schools, here is the reason; the number of high school students in their senior year is increasing and it happens to be just as the baby boomers children are reaching their late teens. At the very same time, an alarming increase in the sophistication of our economy means that more and more high school students who graduate are planning on going to college. Meanwhile, the top colleges that everyone is trying to get into are not increasing the sizes of their classes; hence, the fixed number of slots for upcoming freshman.
The awareness that comes with this competition is causing all of the applicants to apply to more than just one or two schools. Recent surveys showed that almost a third of college applicants ended up applying to at least seven different schools, which means a lot of application fees and a lot of college admission essays. Essays play such a significant role in helping the admission officer’s sort out the huge mess of application materials. A great essay can answer the questions that will be raised the conflicting or incomplete information that an application can put down on a form. A good essay does not only show motivation and intelligence, it shows heart. Heart can be exactly what someone on an admissions board wants in a member of their community.
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