<p>I saw that Admissions Daniel posted that some essays are amazing and some essays are (gulp) miserable.
From the opinion of an admissions director himself, what does a good essay consist of? Is the purpose of the Money in Pocket Essay different than that of the Common App Essay? And what do admissions officers seek to know from the Which is your most influential course Essay?</p>
<p>Lots of Questions, any answers would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>I highly doubt that an admission officer will give specific examples of what a good essay consists of...</p>
<p>If an admission officer were to do that, then the good essay wouldn't be a good essay anymore because all of them would be the same. Paradoxical.</p>
<p>Sorry but to answer these questions would take a lot of time. Time that I do not have during the application reading season. </p>
<p>In the summer I will be writing new entries to the Hopkins Insider blog about various parts to the application, and there will definitely be an entry about the college essay.</p>
<p>i'm not an adcom, etc. </p>
<p>but the piece of advice i got and went with when applying to college last year was basically to write an essay that someone else couldn't write.</p>
<p>even if the essay is on a similar topic, sports, music, community service, etc. there are definitely subtleties you can/have to add to make the essay poignant/unique.</p>
<p>Did he post these essays on the typepad website?</p>
<p>I won't be posting entries about essays until the summer of 2007.</p>