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The personal statement and procrastination. To avoid that frantic feeling, don't leave your college essay until Thanksgving or a week before the due date. By that time the pressure is really on, making it very difficult to turn out a worthy personal statement. |    |
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| If you leave your college essay until the eleventh hour, you may discover that your brain has turned to mush as the deadline approaches. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writing in a panic usually results in a confused, directionless effort. Not the kind of first impression you want create with the admissions officer. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| In evaluating your essay we initially look for insight and organization. In other words does the essay provide an authentic glimpse into the writer's life, and does the structure of the composition make it easy for the reader to discover that insight. Is the essay really about you? Is it a real personal statement? Also, in all forms of writing, but especially in the admissions statement on both the graduate and undergraduate levels, audience awareness is crucial. And who is your audience? College admissions officers. |
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Essays to avoid: (1)
A statement about your class-president experience A statement on any one of the above topics is not likely to arouse a lot of interest or curiosity. Why? Because these topics are overused, and as a result bore admissions people to death. By the time admissions officers have slogged through several thousand submissions, they are suffering from essay fatigue. That is why your essay must be authentic and interesting to pierce the fatigue barrier. To be authentic it must be personal. If it's not, chances are the reader won't make it past the first paragraph. |
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