Imagine yourself as the college admissions counselor reading your essay

 
 

As a college admissions counselor, you are reading hundreds of student essays.

Essay after essay—what would catch your attention?

That’s what we want your essay to do; catch their attention.

 

College Admissions Counselors are looking for things in an essay that grab their attention and feelings and convince them—to admit you.

Remember they want to admit you, not deny you.