<p>I will be applying early action to georgetown and I was wondering if any current students or applicants had any tips on what I should focus my personal essay on?? Thanks!</p>
<p>It’s a personal essay! None of us know you, so, really, we can’t say what your focus should be.</p>
<p>Here is the best way to do this:</p>
<p>You write a couple drafts. You rip em up
You write a couple more. You rip em up
You get frustrated
You write a more. You hate the cliched, shallow voice.
You get really angry
You write exactly what you think because you don’t care</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>To your shock and delight, you receive an acceptance letter. </p>
<p>-Tested, proven.</p>
<p>thanks! i guess i will just try lots of topics.</p>
<p>After you finish your rough draft (the last one that you don’t rip up) find a friend who writes better than you who is willing to sit with you and go through the essay sentence by sentence, reading it out loud for flow and meaning. Make sure it’s someone who knows you well and will know what you’re trying to say, and who is willing to tell you when you sound shallow or cliched haha. Also make sure you still retain your own voice, i.e. by waiting a day after that whole process and reading it out loud again. I know it sounds lame but it helped me a lot to have another perspective.</p>
<p>write like your talking to your friend. nothing too formal, but make it about something that will make you stick out in a crowd. last year i did mine about my interest in obscure movies.</p>
<p>@ rent, so the personal essay for gtown should be very personal and nonacademical? because the “hook” of mine so far is about differential equations… :(</p>