There is one thing that every high school senior dreads more than freshman: the college admission essay. The reason this essay is so dreaded is because a high school senior has never had to write anything like it before. The college admission essays are a genre entirely of their own. Their purpose is to get you admitted into college. However, the topics for these essays widely vary based on the application you are using. For example, the Common Application essay topics the year I applied were each different. The five topics were: describe a trait about yourself, a failure, a belief, an event that lead to your development from childhood to adulthood, and a problem you have solved. As you can see, all these topics seem completely different. Each of these prompts would create a different sounding essay.<\/p>\n
When I wrote my Common Application essay, I spoke about a failure and how I have grown from it. I went on to describe how my failure to ask for help went on to me getting hurt. I learned how to ask for help from this experience which showed the college admissions board that I am able to learn from my failures. It was difficult to show the board that I had failed at something, but it was ultimately the topic I felt I could say the most about. I had to write to an audience that I didn’t know much about, all I knew was that they would be determining my future.<\/p>\n
The audience for the essays is the board of college admissions. The board will read each essay of the students applying to their school, so it is important to make an essay stand out. The students has to try and boast about themselves while still seeming humble in order to tell the board how they would fit into the college. The admissions essay had to be equal parts narrative and persuasive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is one thing that every high school senior dreads more than freshman: the college admission essay. The reason this essay is so dreaded is because a high school senior has never had to write anything like it before. The Continue reading