READING MY COMMON APP ESSAY + TIPS FOR YOUR COLLEGE ESSAY!

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Let's just say senior year of college is really kicking my butt right now. What's crazy is that I have been receiving so many comments of you guys asking me to talk about this topic, and you don't even know that I was planning to do this topic, which maybe feel even more excited to do this video because I know that it is something that you have requested and would like to watch. Is that subscribe? With all that being said, Let's get right on into today's video, which is going to be all about tips for your common app college essay as well as reading my own. I'm going to link all the most recent college videos that I have been doing because I've been on a roll lately, since they're all related to this video as well, and I am going to slightly repeat myself or a reference them, so if you haven't watched them, be sure to click the link down below. With all that being said, let's get right on into my college essay that I wrote to get into college, which is so weird to say, especially since right now I am starting to prep to apply to graduate school, some going through this entire process all over again, and I feel like that's a process that's even talked about less than the process. I am talking about on the Internet, which is applying to college in itself, feeling you're going to be a lot more videos like this. So after a lot of searching on my flash drive, here's my senior year of high school last drive that I found very deep into my desk. I want to talk about some of the notes that I took before actually writing the college essay itself, because these are my notes that really grounded and stabilized the entire essay admitted even stronger than what it would have been had I not prepared this much. I don't know if that makes any sense similar to what I was talking about in my last video about things that you need to add to your college. A sap a really important component to your common up essay is Think about adjectives that you want Admission offices to take away Singer Peace Come up with a list of adjectives and idiosyncrasies that you would use to describe yourself after you've created this list. Once you have your reasons behind your adjectives that define you now it's time to start building your essay based on this foundation. College admission offices to see me as as an individual So maybe this will inspire you to think of some for yourself. I really wanted my common app essay to reflect that I'm empathetic towards others. So that was the list of all the adjectives that I think I would use to describe myself that I was hoping college admissions with Find me applicable SP and then to add to this bullet list, I also came up with reasons behind these adjectives, for example, under the bullet note. I've listed some ideas to help brainstorm some essay topics such as I'm a baby sitter. Then I try to write example, paragraphs expanding on these ideas whoever an interesting back story about my common app essay for colleges that I had a really hard time writing it. It was one of the last things that I did for my college applications because it just it wasn't coming to me. Then when it finally hit me, I realized that I had such a hard time writing that, I say, because the thing that I was going to write about how did even happened yet and I cannot explain to you how great of a feeling it was to email my college counselor at like two in the morning that Friday night with my essay telling him how happy and ecstatic I was, because I was able to finally write this and I was able to tell him it was because this event had yet to happen. There was my college essay, and I know this isn't how it usually happens and that everyone will right there actually like this. I tried to think of different events in my life that would help the college admission offices to see me as this whole and unique students. If you're looking for more specific tips to your writing and what to add your college app in particular, we should check out my last video because that is where I will talk about all of that in detail. For this video, I just want to mention that briefly in the beginning and then get on into sharing my actual essay. While I'm reading this, maybe it will inspire you as to come up with what you could write. Keep in mind that this is the essay that helped me get into about 12 colleges. I believe if you're curious what schools I was accepted into with this essay I know that I'm not say is not your entire common application and that it is only a very small part of your application and that schools look at very, very many things when they're looking at applicants to be their future students. If you are curious as to what schools for in my essay and ended up accepting me, make sure to click the video list up in this corner as well as in the box down below. I have not read this essay in four years, and now that I am majoring in English, I might end up finding a lot of critical areas in this. Who knows? I was a really strong writer in high school. Sometimes I think I was a better writer than than I am. Three years ago, my parents immediately shot down my idea, for there was no way they were able to afford such a rh flights and program costs to places such as Australia or Spain, let alone be able to set the table for our family of seven without, Why did I add that I didn't want to share that on the Internet? About a month later, I received a 100% chairman grant to Thailand. I kept writing until a former English teacher asked if I wanted to start a riding club with her, and I wrote for my school newspaper until my faculty advisor contacted me prior to the start of school, asking if I could write a few crucial articles regarding the new school year. For reference, that essay was a little bit over 600 words. So in the documents, with my bullet note list of adjectives and examples and things that I could write about, I had mentioned, you know, make sure to mention rustic pathways and how you try to volunteer there in Thailand. Mention about how you volunteer a lot locally and how you want to help others mentioned how you were influencing others and kind of how others see you So what? I received that note from a younger girl saying that she looked up to me. That was my college essay, and I think it's really cool this year, stuff like this. I would have loved to read other people's essays when they're applying to college. I hope that you enjoyed content below what your college essay was. Don't you decided to write about? And if you're still in high school leaving few ideas down below, I'd love to hear them and maybe help you out, because this stuff is really fun to talk about. This notifies you every time I uploaded a new video, which is super important because with every new upload, I always Snapchat and instagram the first comments off the video and shut them out on social media. I'll see you on Sunday with a brand new video by.