<p>Sometimes its more fun and interesting to have sentences that dont just have both a subject and a verb and it feels more creative and powerful to me. Sorry for the misspellings!!</p>
<p>Not necessarily in that they can be informal and don’t have to be 100% gramatically correct. However, they cannot have any major grammatical errors.</p>
<p>If they’re like sentence fragments done intentionally, like the kind you’d see in a novel, that’s probably acceptable, but the tone should remain formal (i.e. don’t use slang even when it seems appropriate, content-wise). Alternatively, if you’re unsure about an exact situation, show your finished essay to an English teacher or trusted authority and ask their opinion.</p>
<p>What may seem creative and powerful to you has a good chance of coming off as a deficiency to others. Part of the purpose of an application essay is to see how well, grammatically and logically, you can put together sentences in standard English.</p>
<p>Not necessarily, drusba. I think the purpose of an application essay is more to see how well you can put together thoughts and ideas to form a thought-provoking and meaningful essay that addresses the prompt. As long as the college can see you know how to write standard English, you can write however you like. It’s a style.</p>