<p>I feel like I am seriously rambling in my essay. Is it a problem if I answer each of the parts in a seperate section? First I summarized my life, then I talked about my academic "successes", then my aspirations. I found myself a great concluding paragraph, but everything else doesn't really flow. Help?
Thank you!</p>
<p>I centered mine around three events that I felt represented aspects of me, as well as an overall theme I feel represents me as a whole. That was just my approach. I don’t know what everyone else does, and I bet it can be however you’d like it. There isn’t anything wrong with your approach.</p>
<p>But! although I haven’t read your content, I bet you can use the “What does each sentence contribute to my thesis?” (you most likely should have a thesis that sums up all of your ideas). If something isn’t related to that SINGLE idea, cut it!</p>
<p>Don’t worry, I think that’s kind of how most people’s bio essay is going to be since you aren’t supposed to write about just one thing. I wrote mine about two different topics and it was incredibly difficult to find a way to connect the two so I’m afraid it might sound a bit choppy too.</p>
<p>I talked about multiple things in my bio essay.
They’re probably not looking for how good your essays are, just your content</p>
<p>can someone post the prompt for the biographical essay? i need to make sure i have it covered and since the servers are down i cant read the prompt anymore…i was writing my essay on word and was going to paste it</p>
<p>please help! whats the prompt?</p>
<p>“We are interested in learning more about you and the context in which you have grown up, formed your aspirations and accomplished your academic successes. Please describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations. How have these factors caused you to grow? (800 word limit)”</p>
<p>look in the main thread. It’s there, though the page is in one of the 30s</p>
<p>thank you all! i think i hit all then…now hopefully the servers go back online and im done!</p>
<p>Since the prompt says it’s interested in learning about you and the CONTEXT in which you have done all those things, what it be off topic to write about a specific life experience that has caused all of the academic successes and formed our aspiration?</p>
<p>@ernie92: as long as that one experience is a good representation of your life, then it shouldn’t be a problem. i was worried about that too, but my counselor (who wrote a rec for another questbridge student who got in) said it works fine as long as it is really significant</p>
<p>I wrote about 2 overarching themes within my essay.</p>
<p>I used a scene, then brought it to the theme of reaching back, and in there, I made clues as to what the 2nd part of my essay would be about, reaching forward. </p>
<p>Then brought it full circle back to the scene.</p>
<p>I used the 2nd essay to talk about diversity in the context of something that I did recently.</p>
<p>I used the 3rd essay to talk about the experience of my high school etc.</p>
<p>I have a question.</p>
<p>Do they want you to explain the context in which you have grown up, how you formed your aspirations, and then also how you accomplished your academic successes?</p>
<p>Or do they want you to describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations.</p>
<p>Do we have to do both? Because I wrote about the context in which I grew up and how these “factors” have shaped into who I am. I thought that was good enough, but do I need to talk about my future aspirations too?</p>
<p>@3coolcats I think you should be fine. The factors have shaped you into who you are now and who you are involves your aspirations. I think QB purposely left that one very vague so that you could really put your own twist to it and still be okay. The other prompts were a bit more specific, but the biographical one I believe was purposely written that way.</p>