<p>So I need help fully understanding one of the UT essays.
Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extracurricular activities might help you achieve your goals.</p>
<p>My question is: is it better to be very specific about your goals or to write one main general goal and relate other minor ones to it?</p>
<p>Can you guys just tell me what you think the question means exactly?</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
<p>This prompt is terrible, because it’s basically asking you to justify what you are currently doing in terms of a future goal. Some people work that way, but most don’t. In my case, I joined clubs/sports teams because: a) they sounded like a lark and b) my friends were doing them. Was I thinking how this could benefit me later on? Not a bit. </p>
<p>My academic decisions were a bit more deliberate, so if I had this prompt I would probably focus mostly on academics. I wanted to be an engineer so I took a lot of math and science classes, joined a science club, and tutored math. It’s not very compelling, but that’s the way to answer the prompt. </p>
<p>I still don’t know the answer to your question. Specifics are generally better, but if you can’t manipulate your specifics into a good story, you might just be better off going the broader route.</p>
<p>When it mentions ‘current and future’, does it mean that you completely omit the past? What if you already finished high school and you’re not really doing anything?</p>
<p>Senior0991 thank you. I think thats what i’ll do</p>
<p>I guess you can talk about the past as well cuz I’m done with highschool so thats what i’m going to do</p>