Parents of the HS Class of 2024

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Why UMass Amherst?
Why your major?
Explain how you would enrich our campus.

Personally, I think those essays are great topics. He may end up modifying them and use them in other applications.

This post is from another thread about Harvard. However, the advice applies to all colleges. Some schools have really obscure essays. In this case, the UMass essays are giving students three opportunities to tell why they will be a good fit at that school.

I'm interested in applying to Harvard, and here are some achievements I achieved while in high school and during my gap year

My standard advice to anyone interested in a specific school is to make sure to find and carefully study their version of a “What we look for” admission webpage (it could also be in an admission FAQ, spread over multiple pages, or so on). These can sometimes seem very similar at first look, but the more you really look at them in detail and compare, the more you get a specific vision of what a particular college is looking for in its applicants. And here is Harvard’s: A couple high level notes. Like pretty much all “holistic review” colleges, Harvard is interested in more than just your academic credentials (although very good academic credentials are a given) and your individual achievements. They are also interested in what sort of person you are, and how specifically you as a person will fit into their school community. Harvard in particular puts a lot of emphasis on how you will interact with your fellow students. Right at the top, they lead off with: In our admissions p…