<p>Would it be a mistake to write an essay that deals with your passion, but isn't dedicated to all of it being about you?</p>
<p>I'm not sure what you mean. I thought essays were there for colleges to learn about you?</p>
<p>I know the essays were to learn about you, but if you right about what you love to do, wouldn't that stand for you also?</p>
<p>I am wondering this also.</p>
<p>I understand what you mean, but I think it would be better to approach it from a personal standpoint. There must be a way to work yourself in somewhere. For example, if I wanted to write about dog rescue, I could write them ten pages of a rant about homeless pets in America (believe me). But it would be better if I went into my major points as part of an essay where I talk about an experience I had with a particular dog and how it made me feel these topics were important. There must be a reason it is your passion.</p>
<p>Glucose101, can you give us an idea of what it is you want to write about? I'm trying to imagine a topic that has no personal relevance but about which you can still be passionate, and I'm drawing something of a blank.</p>
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<p>Connect this passion back to you and show them what it tells about you and your values. Not sure what your passion is but let say its football or something. Show how football affects you and the values you picked up from it hard work ethic etc.</p>
<p>write about something "small." it's that simple.</p>
<p>I was actually curious about this too, so thank you very much to those who posted-
I personally think that passion is a kind of vehicle of expressing yourself, so even if you don't talk about yourself directly, the personality comes through..</p>
<p>But now I'm still wondering what would happen if there was a little "twist" in the passion... say, you found a "new" passion in a particular volunteering activity three months before the application is due. You love it more than all the activities you have done, but because of time reasons, the total hours add up to like 40 or 50. If you write an essay on this, would colleges look at the essay negatively...maybe even think that you just made up your passion at the last minute?</p>
<p>When writing your essay, reveal your passion by showing how you pursued it.</p>
<p>the "number of hours" doesn't matter at all. Just write about something small, something real personal that can reveal an aspect of your personality. Pay lots of attention to the small details we often overlook. </p>
<p>Another thing during re-write is to "refresh your childhood imagination and creativity." Many people get dull and confined to certain rules when growing up. Little kids, however, express themselves in the most creative, one-of-a-kind manner, like making up strange words. It'd make your essay that much interesting and livelier.</p>
<p>If the passion your writing about gives the ADCOM a vivid image and view of you then go for it.</p>
<p>How do you express your passion when writing main essay responses where colleges request replies of only 250, 300 or 500 words, yet want answers to multiple questions? These are cases when the college only requests that you write essay, it's your only chance to tell adcoms who you are! Here's an example of such a question: "Tell us how your academic achievements, personal interests and life experiences help helped you prepare to succeed both academically and participate actively in our college community." How do you write an interesting essay and one that reveals the real you in such a small amount of words? What are adcoms looking for in response to such essay questions?</p>
<p>i think its a big mistake when people try to answer the question in a way that supposidly shows their personal traits, characteristic with the story they tell.</p>
<p>in all honesty, after going through the admissions process, i think the best thing to do is just write an essay, answering the question and backing it up with examples(not stories).</p>
<p>In my opinion, essays that "show, not tell" make the most interesting ones. They can show who you essentially are on so many levels, rather than just essays that are blunt tick-offs of facts about you.</p>