How to Follow the “Show, Not Tell” Rule in Your Admissions Essay
Show, don’t tell. Show, don’t say. Show it, don’t state it. Whatever variation it takes, all essay writing involves this basic rule. Show something, don’t tell it. If you are unclear as to what this rule means, it is really as simple as if you are going to claim something, do not just state the [...]
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Who to Seek Advice From for College Application Essays
The college application process has become very, very competitive. It is not hard to understand why. Not only are there more people applying to colleges from all over the United States, but there are several more people from the four corners of the globe trying to apply to American schools. The reason there is such [...]
When Should You Avoid Sample Essays
If you have read my previous post, you already know that I advocate using personal statement examples or sample essays. Regardless of whether you are applying to college, university, graduate school, medical school, law school or an MBA program, it always helps to look at the past work of people that applied to that same [...]
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Your Personal Details Can Make a Typical Essay Standout
The problem with many college applicants is that they make the admissions essay harder than it needs to be. Face it guys, it is an essay. You do remember what an essay is. This is not a magical literary device that will magically get you admitted into the top school of your choice. If you [...]
Outline of a College Application Essay
The outline of a college application essay is not a big mystery. If you have been wondering if your application essay would involve different writing than the stuff that you did in high school, you would be wrong. You would be doing the same thing as writing an essay except that the point you are [...]
How to Write a Story Essay
If you are going to tell a person a story for your essay, you have to do it the right way. In other words, you have to go back to basics and learn how to tell a story. Telling a story is fairly straightforward. At least that is what it looks like on the surface. [...]
How to Write a Personal Statement About Your Hobbies
To many applicants, focusing your admission essay on your hobby might seem very narrow. To them it might seem almost narcissistic on one hand and petty on the other. I would say to all the critics that their criticism is rubbish. There is certain strength to writing about your hobbies. You just have to write [...]
How to Write a Personal Growth Essay
A personal growth essay really is a standard literary device if you look at it from a literary perspective. Read any play or novel and you would see a distinct pattern. The protagonist has a previous state and then there is something that happens to the protagonist and the protagonist ends up in a different [...]
The Disadvantages of Paying Someone Else to Write Your Essay
The title to this blog post is kind of confusing. I have to make a distinction between paying somebody to write your essay so you can come up with your own essay based on the sample essay that was professionally written for you and the second case of paying someone to write an essay and [...]
Some Typical Admission Essay Questions or Themes
The most common admission essay questions that you will get either for college, law school, medical school, graduate school, MBA programs and graduate programs all revolve around the same question. The question really never changes. This is the underlying question. This is not, of course, the question that is explicitly asked by the application package, [...]