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College Essays
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<p>I am working on the essay prompt "Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals". Ive halfway through on what i believe is a strong essay but i keep thinking its going to be considered off topic because the prompt says "current" and "future" activities while my essay uses topics from my freshman and junior year about band/tennis. </p>

<p>Can someone tell me if its ok to use topics from freshman-juniors years or if i HAVE to use activities from my senior year?
Also I see a lot of websites saying that you should be listing achievements or "selling yourself" while others say to be personal and tell a story so what should I do?</p>

<p>*also if anyone if willing to read my essay please leave an email </p>

<p>Thank You</p>

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<p>tennisguy, </p>

<p>DON’T laundry list your activities. They already have all that in the other parts of your application. Consider a single activity or a few if you can draw commonalities - and yes it can be from an earlier year, and then dig deeper into that activity, how it made you grow, feel, change. </p>

<p>Your band/ tennis activities will work well if you can draw from the experiences something fresh and new that is not listed elsewhere in your application. </p>

<p>I think you are on the right track.</p>

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<p>Ok thank you. Would you be willing to look over my essay? If you can, please leave your email.</p>