How To Write Essay For College

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How to Write a College Essay
When the time comes to apply for college, students often find themselves stumped by the application essay. The pressure to write the perfect essay is such that some students lose food and sleep to come up with the most excellent product.
In such circumstances, a rejection is not only a hindrance in their path to success but also an agent of discouragement. Writing an essay, however, is not rocket science: it only requires concentration and creativity. Following are some steps that one could follow when working on one’s college essay, to make sure that the end product is nothing less than satisfactory.
THE ESSAY IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART
Contrary to what many students think, the essay is not the only part of the academic application to be considered. A good essay can be overshadowed by a mediocre application package, whereas a less than perfect essay may be made up for by an excellent academic profile. Thus, students should concentrate not only on making their essay the best piece of their application: equal attention should be paid to each and every aspect.
START EARLY
While procrastination might have been the norm during high school years, it is never the viable option when it comes to writing a college essay. Students should start working on their essay at the earliest opportunity available so as to avoid last minute coffee induced hazes that only produce substandard works.
WRITE WHAT YOU FEEL PASSIONATE ABOUT
According to personnel working in the admission offices in colleges across the country, a student should always write about what interests them.

Writing about what they think would please the admission office will only have the opposite effect. On the other hand, it is evident when a student has written an essay on a topic that he or she has clearly pondered over and has an opinion about. WRITE AN ORIGINAL ESSAY
The temptation to copy an essay from the internet or have someone else write it for you may be strong, especially when you clearly have less time than you would like. Refrain from plagiarizing your essay, or even buying one. Admission personnel are experienced workers with years of experience sifting through application essays. They know when an essay is a student’s original work, and when it has been plagiarized.
TAKE RISKS
The worst thing about an application is not that it might turn out to be bad, but that it might be common. The admission office at a university goes through hundreds of thousands of applications every day. The probability of going through an essay on the same topic more than once, thus, is exceptionally high. Even a mediocre essay might get the reader’s attention if it is on a new, daring topic.
STAY FOCUSED
Do not digress from the topic, and take care to limit your essay to six hundred words. Be concise, but effective. Just like readers of a website will be less inclined to read a long article, a lengthy essay will exhaust the admission personnel, who have hundreds of essays to go through every day.
REWRITE YOUR ESSAY
No one expects a prospective high school student to write a masterpiece of an essay in the first try. However, it is folly to write your essay and choose not to ameliorate it when you have time.
Discover your writing style and use it to your advantage. You may be a ‘fat’ writer who writes long sentences to be cut short in the second try; or, you may be a ‘skinny’ writer, who prefers to formulate only the skeleton of the essay in the first try.
Whatever way you choose, make sure that you are comfortable with it, and that it plays to your strength.
SECOND OPINIONS DO MATTER
Over confidence was never a step to success. Once your essay is complete, do not let it stew until the last minute. To gauge the impact it has on a reader, get acquaintances that are familiar with the art of writing to peruse through it. You may get valuable feedback that may be the difference between acceptance and denial.
PROOFREAD YOUR ESSAY
There is nothing that irks an examiner more than an essay littered with grammatical errors. Therefore, before you send in the essay, proofread it for errors, preferably more than once. One of the ways to do so is to check the essay once, before taking a long break. Hence, come back to check the same work. With a fresh mind, you will be able to filter mistakes that may otherwise slip your overtired mind.
BE ACCURATE
Even if you are applying online, make sure that you do not revert to text speak or your normal high school banter. Maintain a professional attitude at all times! This includes omitting any abbreviations and shortening words by taking out vowels.