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Make Your College Essay Stand Out From The Crowd!
As a former dean with over fifteen years of admissions experience, I can tell you that the college essay can make or break your application. This is the one opportunity you have to “talk” directly to the admissions officer whose decision will decide if you get that “thick” envelope every applicant covets. The hard part is that same admissions officer has a huge pile of applications to review and yours is buried somewhere in the middle. Your essay has to stand out amidst the crowd of other applicants. Use these strategies to make sure yours jumps up, grabs the admissions officer’s attention, and gets you that offer of admission!
First, you’ve got to think of the audience that will be reading your work. Most likely, it will be a fairly recent college graduate just starting their career. Not the chairperson of the English department. So, throw out your thesaurus. Don’t use words like “plethora” or “analogous.” Your essay is not a vocabulary test!
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