College Admission Essays: Checking the Essay One Last Time
Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Topics: College Admissions Tests and Essays, Writing the College Essay
Before you turn in the college admission essay, answer the relevant questions from this list:
- Does the essay represent aspects of your experience that you want the college to understand?
- Does the essay show the admissions committee who you truly are?
- Have you answered the question they asked?
- Is the point of the essay clear?
- Is everything in the essay true?
- Does the essay contain specific details?
- Does the essay represent your views accurately?
- Have you communicated the complexity of your thoughts?
- Have you written the essay in formal English with proper spelling and grammar?
- Does the essay sound like you — your meeting-company-on-best-behavior self?
- Have you avoided false modesty, complaints, unwarranted criticisms, blanket statements, and flattery?
Yes? Congratulations. See the next chapter for the details of presentation (how to fit your masterpiece into that little blank space, when to mail it, and so on). No? Not to worry. Tinker with the essay a bit more until you’ve corrected the errors.
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