<p>Lets face it, you are not going to be the only one applying with a high SAT score nor will you be the only one with a boat load of EC and a high GPA.</p>
<p>that being said</p>
<p>what can be done to differentiate yourself from everyone else?</p>
<p>so when the admissions people read your essays you will leave an impression?</p>
<p>Any ideas comments or suggestions?</p>
<p>Greatly appreciated :)</p>
<p>My personal opinion, I think the essay is the only way to accomplish this</p>
<p>For our family the answer was hiring an essay pro. She taught us that we didn’t know what we didn’t know. For others, they many have a great counselor, a writer friend…someone really tuned in with what a college essay should be.</p>
<p>The problem you’ll find here on CC and most places is that most, like us, did not realize what they college essay had become, and that it should no longer resemble anything you wrote for most English classes.</p>
<p>ummm may you please explain why they do not resemble English class essays?</p>
<p>I think that hiring an essay pro is actually the weakest way to stand out. If someone really wants to get in, they should put everything in their own words, so that they are the one being accepted; who knows them better anyway? Plus not everyone has the money/needs another mind to do the work for them.</p>
<p>I think that application essays are very much like English essays-they become whatever you want them to be, and involve as much personal anecdote/insight as you want them to give. </p>
<p>I am only a junior, but I think that a way to stand out would be to include good humor in your essays, simply laugh at your own mistakes, give sequences unexpected endings, shock the readers with an interesting start…simply avoid the “poor me” essays, and the “there was an obstacle so I did this” typical essays. Creativity!</p>
<p>The fact that essay pros exist is seriously detrimental to the education system in America.</p>
<p>but I don’t see how to make my essay any different than the next applicant</p>
<p>write about something in an interesting way… personify an object, tell a story, describe some meaningful event from a different perspective, create a fantasy world, i dunno… as long as it represents you and who you are then i think that is enough…</p>