Help with my common app essay

Hi guys, still new. Please how do I write a common app essay on gardening and how it has shaped me into who I am. Please, a lot of help needed.
Also, will it impress colleges like
Harvard, Stanford, USC, UChicago, UMichigan, Georgetown,Cornell

  1. Will it impress them?

Yes if you write it well and it isn’t something like “gardening makes me better!” without any explanation. I interviewed with Harvard and when I brought up gardening in the interview, they were surprised and wanted to know more about it.

  1. How do I write a common app essay?

In a way that reflects who you are. Don’t lie and embellish the facts by saying something like “gardening inspired me to work to cure cancer in the future” because adcoms can tell. Other than that, its pretty much impossible to help you without a more specific question.

I’m an international student and thus I cannot have an interview. Thank you Syrxis. How do I compare my life to a tree and how I have developed over time using tree metaphors to a tree

I need urgent help please

It’s your essay; we can’t tell you what to say.

That makes sense. I am chrrently in my 10th year in secondary school but because I want to avoid stress intwo years, I would like to start early

I think you need at least 10-- maybe 20??-- posts before it’s possible.

Then you click on their name and follow the prompt.

First, we hope the person you are today is not who’ll you’ll be after another 2 years of growth. It’s silly to write the essay now. The idea of doing it now shows you don’t know what they look for. Bad decision.

Second, comparing your life to a tree?? You really have no idea, do you? Or the cards idea, in your other thread. Don’t flake on the essay.

Having an interest in gardening and discussing (Syrxis) is entirely different than going off track in an essay. OP, you need to learn, on your own, what tippy tops look for.

If you’re serious.

So, can I write my common app on the tomes I spent playing in the park like a kid- the monkey bars and swings served as obstacles which I had as a kid and it has shaped me into who I am. Does that seem to childish

Now I know you’re joking.
Or not understanding. Neither will help for the schools you noted.

You can do whatever you wish. It’s your application.

What the adults here are trying to help you understand is that the essays that seem to have the best success are the ones that give the reader a positive glimpse into who you are-- now. Not 10 years ago, not 10 years from now, but now.

If gardening is part of who you are, then great, write about gardening. How it has somehow helped make you into the type of person they want on their campus.

^ 1. Show, not just tell.
2. A topic relevant to a admissions review.

Wait.

You posted here http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-essays/2008345-good-common-app-essay.html#latest that you “still have 3 years” before entering college.

Can you please explain why the need for help is “urgent”? And why you’re starting a college essay as a high school freshman?

Above, he/she says “10th year.” As an intl, that leaves 3 years.

I think maybe our legs are being pulled. No 10th year kid knows what to write or is ready to. If he wants a tippy top, this is not some hs writing assignment. Even if it were, he could only write with 10th grade skills.

Stanford, Harvard?

Nope.
A 15 y.o.'s essay on comparing his “life to a tree?” Nope.

I am International student. I donot know how you guys do your class allocations and stuff. I am going to my 10th year of high school, that is, by this September, I will be in my 10th year and in the next two years and some months I will be graduating high school. Please, I hope you understand. Sorry for wastin your precious time.

@serudelo I understand your point man. I’d suggest you not to waste your time on the essay at this moment. You’ll have plenty of time writing those when you’ll be senior. good luck.