The College Essay Timeline

The College Essay Timeline “Favorite work of literature” essay (UVA, ; George Mason, up to 750). Main essay for the Common App of up to 650 words. To her surprise, it takes Rachel more than a week to obtain all the data and organize these lists, and now she wishes she had started working on this during the last week of school. You don’t want to come off as lazy, prejudiced, or cynical. The two “unique” essay prompts are already fairly well defined, so Rachel doesn’t need further brainstorming on them at this stage. Read on to learn more about the changing role of community colleges. Learn about the growing trend amongst four-year universities to recruit from community college campuses. Enjoy an academic head start and a competitive edge against other applicants by starting first at community college. Keep an eye on your tone throughout the essay â€" this will help to shape the committee’s impression of you. Find schools and get information on the program that’s right for you. Colleges across the country are struggling to recover from the massive upheaval to the semester wrought by COVID-19. Housing refunds and slashed budgets are bound to have long-term impacts for the institutions that survive. Some experts suggest community colleges may be the best equipped to ride out the storm and may have the greatest impact in helping America recover. The role of community colleges in the world of higher education has expanded over the years and, as the country works to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, they may be more important now than ever. She will need to find specific classes to cite, professors she’s familiar with, and extracurriculars she will take part in. She will try to fit this research in while traveling. No; probably every teenager in the world will write about that this season. The sorrow of being far away when her grandmother died? This section covers all topics related to community college graduations. How does state spending impact graduation rates? What initiatives are in place to stem the rate of dropouts? She feels sad even thinking about it, making her reluctant to write; and even stateside kids have lost faraway grandparents. She decides against the “getting lost” story, as it happened when she was 8; although if she could find a metaphoric connection with feeling lost and found when moving to different countries, it could work. Absolutely no pet stories -- admission officers hate them. It's unwise to write about politics or religion, two of the most polarizing topics. Rachel will write 150 words for Michigan about her love of basketball and her growing leadership experience (she’s now team co-captain), focusing on engendering a sense of mission and camaraderie. Rachel now realizes she should do more research on her colleges. Notice that Rachel will be applying Early Action where it’s offered. (She cannot afford to apply Early Decision because her family needs to compare financial aid offers.) She intends to submit all applications by Oct. 15, even those that aren’t due until January. Likewise, she was 10 years old when Maroon Five came to the Dominican Republic, where her dad was the cultural attaché. The story’s tone feels too “privileged,” with no real lesson learned; and colleges prefer more recent experiences anyway.