Beyond the Tassel, The College Essay

The college essay is an essential piece to your college application. The common app calls it your personal statement. And, in many ways, this essay is as personal as it gets. But more people than you’d imagine consider a request to write something meaningful as a stressor on-par with skydiving or giving ones self stitches. And, I get that. Writing something meaningful can be really hard. Most admissions people tell us that the college essay most applications require can be responsible for as much as 30% of the admissions decision. So it’s definitely something you’ll want to prioritize and give what I’ll call ‘a meaningful effort.’ But there’s good news, most of the essay you’ll ultimately write, is already in your possession; you’ve already constructed it and you probably didn’t even know it. Today, I pop the seal on this thing and explain what I mean as well as provide some proven strategies for putting your best foot forward with the college essay.