A college essay was one of the biggest conflicts for me. “College essay season” meant that I would soon be going away, hopefully, to be on my own, but it also meant having to actually write something to determined my future.\u00a0This causes an anxious feeling in every senior. We all sit there contemplating which prompt to choose and carefully mapping out how each essay would go if you chose a certain topic to write about. We all were new to doing this so we didn’t know exactly\u00a0what admissions was looking for other than\u00a0one main thing, to be impressed.<\/p>\n
As Dirk mentions in “Navigating Genres”, it is crucial to know the location of your prompt. By location, Dirk means you should understand what reaction or thoughts you want the audience to have, and what type of essay is needed from you. Each prompt is different, therefore\u00a0there is nuances of genres within the prompts given. In general, this task may require you to humbly brag about your accomplishments, make yourself stand out by including a personal anecdote, and if possible have your writing be condense. In usual college essays, there is only a word minimum, not a word maximum. Though, that doesn’t mean the student should over write. You have to take into account that the admissions team reads hundreds of essays, the last thing that will catch their attention is a long essay that continues to drag on. What I believe would stand out is shorter essay that is filled with striking\u00a0details that are related to the topic.<\/p>\n
If I didn’t understand what type of essay that was needed and how I wanted admissions to perceive me, my college choices might have turned out a bit different. This is why what Dirk has taught us is important, if you don’t know the location and genre, your essay might not be as good as you want it to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A college essay was one of the biggest conflicts for me. “College essay season” meant that I would soon be going away, hopefully, to be on my own, but it also meant having to actually write something to determined my Continue reading