<p>Hi everyone!
All my apps have been submitted but Georgetown. Does the SFS essay need to have a personal connection?
Also, how important is the SFS essay in comparison to the other two?</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>I hadn’t even thought of that…I wrote mine (currently editing) on a topic which I don’t have a personal experience with but that I’m passionate about and see as feasibly changeable. I was going to ask, how long are they supposed to be? Mine is 800 but I’m trying to edit it down to 650-700</p>
<p>My essay last year was around 550 words in one long paragraph. I didn’t have any personal connection with the topic at all.</p>
<p>Did any of you guys make a personal connection?</p>
<p>ok mine ended up staying at 800 words. Oh well, it said approximately 1 page and it was between 1 page and 1 and a half on my computer, so that’s ‘approximate’</p>
<p>what topics did you guys do?</p>
<p>i wrote about the problem of aid dependency in LEDCs
no personal connection, still accepted.</p>
<p>DS had no personal connection in his SFS essay…wrote about a topic that interested him and was accepted. Good luck!</p>
<p>I made a personal connection. I thought it made the essay a lot more meaningful.</p>
<p>sorry to ask, but what is SFS?</p>
<p>…School of Foreign Service.</p>
<p>thanks for the clarification</p>
<p>Mine had a personal connection (I interned with a group relating to my topic) and was just about 550 words</p>