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EssaysHow to Write a Common App Personal Statement That Sounds Like You
The personal statement is the one place you get to be a person instead of a transcript. Here is how to find a story worth telling and write it in your own voice.
EssaysWriting About a Challenge Without It Feeling Like a Sob Story
An essay about hardship works when it is really about you, not the hardship. The trick is spending your words on what you did and who you became.
EssaysHow to Start a College Essay (Openings That Actually Work)
The first two sentences decide whether a tired reader leans in or skims. Good openings are specific and a little surprising, never grand.
EssaysHow to Cut Your Essay to the Word Limit Without Killing It
Word limits are a feature, not a punishment. Cutting forces you to keep only what matters, and it almost always makes the essay stronger.
EssaysShow, Don't Tell: The Rule That Fixes Most College Essays
If your essay keeps announcing your qualities instead of demonstrating them, this is the fix. It is the difference between a claim and evidence.
EssaysCliché College Essay Topics, and How to Handle Them If You Must
No topic is truly banned, but some are so common that they start at a disadvantage. Here is how to know the difference and how to make a tired topic fresh.
EssaysHow to Reuse Supplemental Essays Without Getting Caught
You can and should reuse material across applications. The danger is the leftover detail that makes it obvious an essay was written for a different school.
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