What do people mean when they tailor essays to fit certain colleges?
For the college essays that ask “Why do you want to go to College X,” it’s obvious that you have do individualize the essay, but for other question, such as the more general/vague ones (por ejemplo: Describe a significant event), how are you supposed to revise and change essays around to fit a certain college?
<p>It's mostly a matter of understanding the kind of things that MIGHT be important toi a unversity and emphasising them in the essay. For example in one essay my son emphasised what he had to go through to teach himself enough to write a video game (and why he bothered in the first place) and in another he emphasised some research he's involved in. Both things are true and he discussed them both in each essay, but he thought one school's honors program was more research oriented and the other school seemed more interested in his personal initiative.</p>