<p>to write one of the supplemental essays (WORD LIMIT 250@&$<em>&^$#</em>&$@*&^$!!!!)
.. the one about explain your community and your role in it.</p>
<p>i seriously think i only have enough room to say-
hi, my name is so and so. alright thanks for reading.</p>
<p>My suggestion to you is to write the essay as if there were no world limit and first complete it. Then you go in and look at all the superfluous details and get rid of those. Then see how you can make your sentence structure more concise. Usually you will be down around 250 words. If you’re still way above that, you’re going to need to narrow your essay a little bit. Basically you have to write your essay only mentioning the most important details.</p>
<p>I’m just having trouble thinking of a community I even belong to. Out of all the essay topics I’ve seen this fall for all 8 colleges I’m applying to, this one is by far the worst.</p>
<p>hear hear!! i cant even figure out what they want to hear for this essay. like, are we supposed to stick to the list of communities they give? or can we talk abt something totally different? or WHAT. jesus</p>
<p>My honest, and very cliche, advice. Be yourself. You don’t have to stick to the list. Be creative and create your own group if you want. When I wrote this essay, I just used the easiest group and probably most often used one as well. The one I used is the one that affects my life the most. The worst way to approach an essay is to try to write what you think the admissions staff wants to hear. It creates, what the University of Virginia, calls “Mcessays”. Like a big mac, there isn’t really anything wrong with it but it’s just kind of the same everywhere. </p>
<p>The way I wrote this essay is I’ll use my ethnic group as the group, however I wrote that I am unique within this common group. I showed that my views and behavior are generally different from other members in my group. Honestly, you just have to be creative with the way you set yourself apart from everyone else. Being honest with how you feel is how you write the most powerful essay and it’ll be the easiest to write as well.</p>
<p>If I wanted to be honest I’d write about how I literally cannot think of a single “community” I belong to. Sure, I could make some garbage up about belonging to a “community” of guitarists, but I don’t think I’d be able to breathe through all the BS I’d have to put into that. And I could make some equally terrible garbage up about how I belong to the “community” of Indian people, but in truth I couldn’t be farther removed from that community compared to nearly all of the Indian kids around here, so that’d be a whole load of BS as well.</p>
<p>Okay, done whining now. I’m just so mad at this essay prompt, lol.</p>
<p>What did I write for that 2 years ago… hmmm</p>
<p>No idea. Considering I am just a white male from a white school in the suburbs of Cleveland</p>
<p>Luckily I am an engineer, and I don’t think anyone cares about essays.</p>
<p>I wrote about my high school’s golf team and how they helped me as a sophomore transfer.</p>
<p>I wrote mine in metaphors about why drama club is so important to me. The limit is tough, but just make it as concise as possible</p>
<p>On a side note: I used the word insure instead of ensure on my other supplement essay. Is this something Michigan is going to be really tough about? It’s literally the only mistake</p>
<p>I am a freshman at the U-M this year, and we had the same question on the Common App last year. They just want you to show that you belong to some sort of community, as that is a big deal here on campus.</p>
<p>Everyone identifies with some form of a group and their individual identity is defined in part on values taken from this group. U-M is trying to find out what makes its applicants unique and this impression is taken in part from this essay. Think about what makes you different from PurpleDuckMan and why and write an essay about it.</p>
<p>It’s honestly just asking you to write about something you did in high school and why the people in that group were unique in some way. When you get to Michigan you’ll realize very quickly that it’s important to find a community of some sort to be a part of. I can see how it would be very easy to get lost if you didn’t make an effort to find probably groups of friends that you can do things with. The admissions office knows this too.</p>
<p>Rockr, I think you could make a compelling essay out of the notion that you do not feel you have a community, and how that sense of isolation affects your work. Just sayin – be you ;)</p>
<p>Ps, because I think I recall what program you’re applying to, I will say that my son’s essay to that effect was about how music formed a sort of culture/community, and how the desire to connect with that motivated his professional goals. There was no bs – in his case it was a very genuine sentiment.</p>
<p>If you are an Indian and don’t feel like you are quite a part of that community state why and then perhaps that the community you most feel to be a part of is your high school.
High school has been a big part of your life for the last 4 years so state how that has been a part of your everyday living breathing life.</p>