Supplemental essays for BU

College Essays
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This is my supplemental essay for Boston University, where the prompt is In no more than 250 words, please tell us why BU is a good fit for you and what specifically has led you to apply for admission.

Please read and respond with how effective it is. Thanks!

Large cities are many people’s dreams; they’re bustling with excitement and fear and love and light—just about anything a little girl could imagine as she walks through a particularly brightly-lit and noisy street in the heart of Boston. There, she pauses to gawk at the beauty of it all.

I come from a small town in Ohio, where the people and places run together like watery paint, the biggest attractions within twenty minutes are the 24-hour Starbucks and the well-kept parks that close at dusk, and you can’t go to the grocery store without ten people recognizing you—before you even get to the first aisle. Being able to leave that little place and seeing a big city was incredible, and I promised myself when I was a mere eight years old that I would give myself the opportunity to live there, no matter what it took.

Not only is Boston University known (at least to me) for having a wonderful school of education, but it is in a large city, where I have always wanted to teach. My mission in life is to help those who need it most, and inner city schools are some of the ones most in need of excellent teachers.

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  1. don’t post any of your writing publicly! If you can, edit this now and/or ask a mod to delete your post.
  2. Don’t write about Boston… you could submit this “why” to literally any school in Boston and trust me BU is very sensitive to “Why BU” essays that are actually about Boston. Why BU… why not BC or Harvard or MIT or Emerson or Northeastern? That’s what they want to know.
  3. But you do write well, so if you can actually make this about BU (start by making a list of 10 reasons you are applying. Be specific… use that to get you started), you’ll do fine. Feel free to PM me your next draft and/or PM me with any questions about BU.