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Admissions Essay Writing Part 1
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Admissions Essay Writing

• Physicists emphasize starting conditions. Take a
  run-of-the-mill mechanics problem. You throw a
  ball. You want the ball to fly high and remain
  airborne. You need to counteract gravity pulling
  the ball down and drag holding it back. These
  external obstacles are mostly outside your
  control. What you CAN control is initial velocity
  (part of which is throw angle). How fast and how
  high you shoot determines the distance it travels
  and time it remains aloft.

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Admissions Essay Writing

• How does this relate to admissions essay writing?
  Quite simply, this basic mechanics problem is the
  perfect analogy for your academic and
  professional paths.
• Gravity Standards all students must meet (e.g.,
  curriculum)
• Drag Personal challenges (e.g., other
  responsibilities)
• Initial velocity Preparation (e.g., GPA,
  community service, AP courses, pre-college
  programs, leadership positions, and
  recommendations)

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Admissions Essay Writing

• Angle Challenges you set (e.g., prestige of the
  college and difficulty of the program)
• To maximize your ultimate success, you must
  prepare well and aim high.
• The scary part is, translating your preparation
  into a high trajectory hinges on a single essay
  of 650 words, your admissions essay.
• Let me tell you a secret. A winning essay
  requires just three qualities (besides perfect
  grammar) honesty, individuality, and
  imagination. I will discuss honesty here and
  individuality and imagination in subsequent
  posts.

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• The common application, which everybody
  completes, offers 5 essay prompts. Three ask you
  to describe moments of crisis a failure, a time
  you challenged a belief, or an accomplishment
  sparking your entry into adulthood. These require
  the most honesty. They are the most challenging,
  but perhaps also the most beneficial.
• Why? Admissions committees need you to
  acknowledge that you are human. As such, you make
  mistakes, and you suffer. A common mistake
  applicants make is to pretend that they, their
  academic career, and their personal life have
  been perfect. This is understandable. You want to
  put your best foot forward because image matters.
  A LOT. However, believability matters, too.

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Admissions Essay Writing

• And, dont forget, struggle makes us strong.
  Mistakes and misfortune come to us all. What
  defines us is how we handle them. Admissions
  committees need you to admit missteps and
  vulnerability and, most importantly, to show how
  you turned such setbacks into moments of profound
  growth. How have they made you smarter, more
  skilled, and/or more mature?

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Admissions Essay Writing

• College-level work is hard, especially at the
  most prestigious schools. You will face an at
  times frightening amount of pressure, and
  admissions committees need to have faith that you
  wont crack that you are a good investment. They
  need you to give them a concrete example of how
  hardship made you stronger, so they know whatever
  challenges you face, you will earn high grades
  and honors, graduate, and continue to soar higher
  afterward. Image is everything, even for them.
  They need to trust that you will ADD TO, not
  DETRACT FROM, their colleges reputation.     

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Here are some suggestions

• 1. Select a moment that truly mattered to you.
  Your essay is a story, and the best stories
  recount the protagonists desperately desiring
  something, struggling to the point of failure,
  but then ultimately succeeding. Give readers a
  hero to root for.  
• 2. Choose a moment where you actually learned
  something important (to you). Readers will know
  if youre giving them lip serviceif youre
  simply telling them what you think they want to
  hear.

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• 3. Recount a later moment (briefly) where you
  applied what you learned and succeeded (because
  of the previously obtained insight).
• Admissions committees want to know that you can
  learn from your mistakes, challenge deeply held
  beliefs, and evolve.
• As Samuel Becket wrote, Try again. Fail again.
  Fail better.

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