Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals.
This will be the essay that decides if i get scholarships and get into the Honors college. I’m already automatic acceptance, so I;m shooting to get in to the Honors program now. Any advice on pitfalls, and strong subjects? Should this one have any sign of humor or personality, or should I get to the point? Any bad experiences or good ones I should put in, and what if my goals might seem too far fetched? Thanks for your help!
Pitfalls: Listing out the extracurriculars that are already in your application. When writing about how something will help you achieve your goals, using too many generic terms like “teamwork,” “work ethic,” “perseverance,” etc. Clearly not doing research on the schools and writing things like, “I will be sure to join many multicultural clubs on campus.”
Strong Subjects: Following the prompt, lol. Writing about other lifetime goals besides your career. Writing about how your academics / ECs will help you achieve your goals in a way that explains how the school specifically will help you achieve your goals. Being as specific as possible.
Tone: It’s fine to be conversational and lighthearted, especially if you’re explaining how you came to be interested in whatever your goals are. But don’t let humor, gimmicks, etc. be a distraction from what is mostly just a straightforward answer.
Bad / Good Experiences: Nothing in particular, as long as you make the connection between the academics / ECs and your goal clear.
Far-Fetched Goals: If you follow the prompt and discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals, it shouldn’t be so far-fetched that you can’t take clear steps towards that goal.
should I address the university’s name directly as a “future academic activity” and how it would help with my goals? Or should I say university in general?