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All About Admissions Essays

Competition is an intrinsic part of securing admissions and battling through different levels of competition. Admission essays assume importance as it enables the best students to get through to the colleges and educational institutions of their choice.

Typically, admission tests are conducted by colleges and other educational institutions. They generally comprise essays that help to gauge the applicants for the following:

  1. Personality
  2. Profile
  3. Potential
  4. Interests
  5. Ambition
  6. Development Objectives

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Your College Admissions Essay – 10 Tips to Improve It

Your college admissions essay can’t be great. It has to be unbelievable.

It can’t be mediocre. It has to be out of this world.

It can’t be boring. It has to be gripping prose.

It can’t bore your admissions officer to death. It has to win them over.

The number one way to pack a punch in your admissions essay is the content. Following with a close second is all about how you say it.

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Of School Grades and Admission Essays

The value of a College Admission Essay or graduate school admission essay, as part of the college or graduate admissions process can never be over-emphasized. To validate the value of an admission essay or graduate school admission essay, let us look at the following illustration:

James and John are two good friends who share one common dream: to become doctors. James wants to specialize in pediatrics while John is bent on concentrating in orthopedic surgery. After finishing their respective pre-med undergraduate studies and armed with almost identical grade point averages, and also identical scores in the standardized admissions tests (SAT and MCAT) the two buddies decide to apply to the same Medical schools. In his Admission Essay, James decided to list and discuss his school experiences, including his extracurricular works and achievements. He has quite a lot since he has a number of relatives as well as close friends who are either working or used to work in various hospitals and clinics. Gaining the needed medical exposure proved quite easy for him. He wrote them all down, since he figured that the more experiences and accomplishments he could present, the better will be his chances of getting admitted.

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