Ideas to write about

College Essays
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Achievement, Commitment, Honesty, Service, teamwork, results-oriented.

These are some examples. What do you recommend next?

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You are looking for quick answers, but this should be a deeper intellectual process for you. As I mentioned and as the website I linked to suggests, think about how you arrived at your values, how they have shaped your decisions, how they will inform your future decisions. Be grateful for all the advice you are getting and take some time to think it all through and write down some notes and ideas before actually revising your essay.

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I agree with this. OP, you need to stop posting and do some research and deep thinking about this today. When is the essay due?

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I told you an example about how commitment is important to me. For example, if I sign up to participate in something, I would not want to disappoint anyone and not show up. What I do not understand though is how this would fit into the essay question.

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@Yankeefan20. This needs to be your voice speaking in these essays. The scholarship committee wants to know about you as a person as well as your academic goals.

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@yankeefan20, What is the major of the AA degree you’re receiving in May? Are you applying to 4 year schools as a junior without specifying a major and without a clear idea about what type of career you want? Please quit entertaining ~$60k/year debt for schools like NYU. It’s not a good plan for Pell eligible families anyway.

I wouldn’t use up your last 2 years of federal loans until you have some idea about what type of career you want. It’s okay to work for a year or two so you have time to figure that out. It will give you time to save money to help pay for school too.

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Writing is a technical and very crucial subject to express your thoughts in words. Therefore, to improve one’s expressions, one has to be as responsible as diligent to take care of the words one writes. For that purpose, scholars and writers have proposed certain mechanics to write efficiently. So, any writing has following elements, which make the writing easy to understand for the reader.

  1. Introduction
  2. Body
  3. Conclusion

An introduction is the icebreaker of the discussion and consists of a brief overview of the topic. Along with that, this introduction contains a very important element as “Thesis Statement” which inculcates the whole gist of the topic.

The body contains the explanation and description of every argument being discussed in the introduction part. Along with that each argument is backed by a strong quotation, a part of statistics or any international analysis.

Then come the third and the last part, which is the concluding paragraph. This part summarizes the whole idea of writing and encompasses some suggestion, outcomes or possible understanding of the topic, which beautifies the writing and gives it meaning.