What was your college essay like?

Question

I'm curious... I'm entering my Junior Year, and I'll be applying to colleges or looking more into them within the next year. So, I'm just wondering, what is it like writing college essays? Is it different for different schools, or are all pretty much the same? I've never really heard anybody talk about what the essay was actually about, so I'm curious.

Answer 1

most essays are incredibly easy to write

you basically have to write about yourself...most of the questions are usually very general and some schools also provide the option that u can write about whatever u want.

they basically want to get a gist of who u are and most of the times they wont spend more than 2 minutes reading your essay

so make sure that if they give u limit on words like no more than 500 words make sure u follow that limit and don't go over as hard as that will prove to be...

so in that many words try to give the reader a good essence of who you are and always follow the proper conventions of language and grammar.

another tip is to get into what you're trying to say from sentence 1..dont build up and reach the point ur trying to prove at the end of the first paragraph because you want to grab your reader from sentence 1 so bear in mind that this is not a literary composition type of essay

u can find the essay topic(s) on the supplemental application form of the school you are applying too. if you're applying to ivyleague type schools youll obvously have a more complicated essay to write...its not exactly more complicated i mean but its usually u have to write more than one essay and on different topics regarding your stance on a broad range of issues. SUNY essays theyvary according to school but they are mostly all general.

it's not that hard trust me, and your essay is not the deciding factor either.

Answer 2

I did not have to write an essay to enroll. I did, however, need to write an essay in order to "test out" of my compositions class.

For that test-out essay, we were all mailed two articles to read. We then were asked to show up for a test date, and we were given five options. Mostly it was just something like, "what in those articles related to your own life?"

It was really just to see if we were able to arrange our thoughts, support them, and get enough information from our brains to the paper in a grammatically correct way.