What was your essay like?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Washington
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<p>Answer however you want, but here's a general sample outline</p>

<p>Mood Of Essay:
Did you try to be funny:
From what Angle Did you write: Historical, cultural, societal, philosophical, scientific, etc, economics
What kind of relationship did you converse with the Uw admission in: formal, personal, friendly, professional
Did you try to sound like someone else, or possibly a different version of yourself: Age...
Structure And Style Of Essay: Poetic? Thesis, 3 body paragraphs? Narrative? Third person? First Person? Fairytale?
Did you outline, or did you freestyle it, meaning you wrote as you thought it out:
What kind of literary techniques did you use: Metaphors, similes, etc...
What was the goal of your essay: To Sound smart, to have fun, to get accepted, to have something to do because you have no life</p>

<p>Content Of Essay Itself
Did You Mention The Dysfunctionalityness of your family:
Did You Mention your parents:
Did You Talk About Your Friends, for better or worse:
Did You Talk about Your ghetto neighborhood:</p>

<p>Did you use spellcheck outside of the essay box on the application form:
Did you actually check your grammar/writing rather then use spellcheck to do your work:
Did you use synonym book or thesaurus to look up alternate words:
Did You Answer The Prompt/or Were You Talking In Circles:
Did You Use Words that you had to look up the definition to:</p>

<p>How long did you take to write your essay:
How many people read your essay:
Did you cheat?:</p>

<p>Rate Your Essay: Shakespeak being 10, a chicken being 1, a 4 being a lazy high school student. A 7 would be answering the prompt to the point, near perfect grammar, and spelling comparable to a 12 on the SAT essay, with the only limitation being dull, boring, lacking depth and loss of individuality. This rating is YOUR rating of how beautiful you think your essay is, not how well you think it made or killed your chances of admission.</p>

2

<p>Essay: Cultural Awareness
Length: 6xx words
Mood Of Essay: Goes from Sad/Dark > Inspiration Hope/Brightness
Did you try to be funny: NO.
Angle/Perspective: Cultural, Historical, Governmental, Societal, The american dream, Value of Education
Relationship: Personal, close to reader</p>

<p>Did you try to sound like someone else, or possibly a different version of yourself: Yes, I tried to be the understanding son which I have yet to perfect. </p>

<p>Structure And Style Of Essay: 1st Paragraph Narrative > Rest of Essay Is First Person. Definitely not one of those AP/SAT style essays with a thesis that leads into two,three, or four body paragraphs. This essay was one paragraph transitioning and building up to the next, so they are all interdependent like a chain of dominoes. </p>

<p>Did You Outline/freestyle?: Freestyle. Though, I Had in my head I knew I wanted to slowly move from a irrelevant topic to the answer the question, and slowly transition to answering the question in the final paragraph. </p>

<p>What kind of literary techniques did you use: Spent the whole first paragraph describing a scene/setting with my mother as the character. Really detailed scene setting, lighting, texture, everything. Something which was quite difficult to strive for in such a limited space. Totally Avoided cliches and quoting famous people. Avoided using big words, focused more on proper usage of words and precision of it. Focused alot on flow of sentences, something which I don’t think any of my classmates did. </p>

<p>What was the goal of your essay: To raise awareness and bring different aspects of the Vietnam War and it’s refugees here in America. By this I avoided the common format of nail salons, pho restaurants, people fleeing by boat. I focused more on opportunities in communist Vietnam compared to that in America. </p>

<p>Did You Mention The Dysfunctionalityness of your family: No
Did You Mention your parents: Yes
Did You Talk About Your Friends, for better or worse: No
Did You Talk about Your ghetto neighborhood: No</p>

<p>Did you use spellcheck outside of the essay box on the application form: YES
Did you actually check your grammar/writing rather then use spellcheck to do your work: YES
Did you use synonym book or thesaurus to look up alternate words: NO
Did You Answer The Prompt/or Were You Talking In Circles: Circles
Word Difficulty: Nothing big.</p>

<p>How long did you take to write your essay: 2 days
How many people read your essay: 5
Did you cheat?: My essay was originally very poetic, until my brother stopped my from sending it in. I forgot I was supposed to answer the prompt, not be creative. Looking at some essays online, I studied that it was possible to write a effective essay of this sort that is out of first person. I had a tutor with a masters in English help me with sentence flow and transition. Seems I have a lot to improve in my writing.</p>

<p>Rate Your Essay: 8. Grammar was perfect, spelling was perfect. No big words or cliches or beating around the bush. I wouldn’t win a award for poetry or technique. I do feel it brings up a alternative perspective derived from the Vietnam war, that not many other Vietnamese-American youth can relate, thus serving the purpose of cultural-awareness</p>

3

<p>Essay: How a brief scene from a video game made me a better leader</p>

<p>Mood Of Essay:A little serious
Did you try to be funny: No
From what Angle Did you write: Character defining moment
What kind of relationship did you converse with the Uw admission in: A little formal and personal
Did you try to sound like someone else, or possibly a different version of yourself: Just being my crazy self
Structure And Style Of Essay: Looks like an SAT essay
Did you outline, or did you freestyle it, meaning you wrote as you thought it out: Outlined
What kind of literary techniques did you use: Not for me
What was the goal of your essay: To show that I got a life changing moment from something so subtle</p>

<p>Content Of Essay Itself
Did You Mention The Dysfunctionalityness of your family: No
Did You Mention your parents: No
Did You Talk About Your Friends, for better or worse: No
Did You Talk about Your ghetto neighborhood: No</p>

<p>Did you use spellcheck outside of the essay box on the application form: Yes
Did you actually check your grammar/writing rather then use spellcheck to do your work: Eh, spelling not so much
Did you use synonym book or thesaurus to look up alternate words: You bet I did
Did You Answer The Prompt/or Were You Talking In Circles: I answered the prompt eventually
Did You Use Words that you had to look up the definition to: Nah</p>

<p>How long did you take to write your essay: Three days
How many people read your essay: Nobody else
Did you cheat?: Absolutely not</p>

<p>Rate Your Essay: 8. Grammar grammar grammar. I don’t write stories about how my grandmother died and it made me a better person, how I want to be a doctor to make people better, or how I learned the meaning of life through my hospitalized best friend. I’m a silver-haired, ten foot umbrella wielding, opera-loving, fighter and B-Boy. It would be a travesty if my essays weren’t as unorthodox as I am.</p>

4

<p>sigh… i’m bored, so i’ll do this.</p>

<p>Mood Of Essay:
Did you try to be funny: yes (as in, i took a serious topic and made it comfortable to the reader)
From what Angle Did you write: personal view, character defining moment
What kind of relationship did you converse with the Uw admission in: personal, friendly, serious
Did you try to sound like someone else, or possibly a different version of yourself: nope,
Structure And Style Of Essay: Narrative, First Person
Did you outline, or did you freestyle it, meaning you wrote as you thought it out: freestyle
What kind of literary techniques did you use: Metaphors,
What was the goal of your essay: To Sound smart, to have fun, </p>

<p>Content Of Essay Itself
Did You Mention The Dysfunctionalityness of your family: no
Did You Mention your parents: barely yes
Did You Talk About Your Friends, for better or worse: no
Did You Talk about Your ghetto neighborhood: no</p>

<p>Did you use spellcheck outside of the essay box on the application form: yes
Did you actually check your grammar/writing rather then use spellcheck to do your work: yes
Did you use synonym book or thesaurus to look up alternate words: yes
Did You Answer The Prompt/or Were You Talking In Circles: answer the prompt
Did You Use Words that you had to look up the definition to: no</p>

<p>How long did you take to write your essay: rough draft: 3-4 hours, had numerous edits
How many people read your essay: 1
Did you cheat?: no</p>

<p>Rate Your Essay: maybe 8-9. i liked it a lot…</p>

5

<p>Type of essay: Personal statement-prompt 2
Mood of essay: Serious, personal, nervous, scared, motivated, inspired, interested, etc.
Did you try to be funny: No. I usually don’t use humor in essays, so I thought I’d stay away from it.
From what Angle Did you write: Personal perspective. I used the words “I, me, my” quite frequently.
What kind of relationship did you converse with the Uw admission in: Serious and personal.
Did you try to sound like someone else, or possibly a different version of yourself: No.
Structure And Style Of Essay: Experience, elaboration, what I will bring to UW.
Did you outline, or did you freestyle it, meaning you wrote as you thought it out: Freestyle.
What kind of literary techniques did you use: Alliteration and imagery
What was the goal of your essay: To have a smooth flow.</p>

<p>Content Of Essay Itself
Did You Mention The Dysfunctionalityness of your family: No.
Did You Mention your parents: No.
Did You Talk About Your Friends, for better or worse: Just once.
Did You Talk about Your ghetto neighborhood: No.</p>

<p>Did you use spellcheck outside of the essay box on the application form: Of course.
Did you actually check your grammar/writing rather then use spellcheck to do your work: Yes.
Did you use synonym book or thesaurus to look up alternate words: Yes.
Did You Answer The Prompt/or Were You Talking In Circles: I think I answered the prompt.
Did You Use Words that you had to look up the definition to: No.</p>

<p>How long did you take to write your essay: Well I finished a month after I started but probably took a total of 3-5 hours. The rest of the time was used for revisions.
How many people read your essay: 4
Did you cheat?: No.</p>

<p>Rate Your Essay: 10! I loved it and everyone who read over it loved it.</p>

6

<p>I wrote about how the Kool-Aid Man was my primary male role model growing up and still got in.</p>

<p>The next time someone says “OMG YOUR ESSAY IS SOOOO IMPORTANT” I’m going to blow smoke in their face.</p>

7

<p>Mood Of Essay: comfortable, not too serious
Did you try to be funny: no but everyone who read it thought it was funny
From what Angle Did you write: somewhat cultural, character defining, inspirational
What kind of relationship did you converse with the Uw admission in: personal, somewhat friendly
Did you try to sound like someone else, or possibly a different version of yourself: no
Structure And Style Of Essay: narrative first person. kept it simple
Did you outline, or did you freestyle it, meaning you wrote as you thought it out: freestyle
What kind of literary techniques did you use: Metaphors, imagery
What was the goal of your essay: to not sound boring</p>

<p>Content Of Essay Itself
Did You Mention The Dysfunctionalityness of your family: no
Did You Mention your parents: yes
Did You Talk About Your Friends, for better or worse: no
Did You Talk about Your ghetto neighborhood: no</p>

<p>Did you use spellcheck outside of the essay box on the application form: yes
Did you actually check your grammar/writing rather then use spellcheck to do your work: yes
Did you use synonym book or thesaurus to look up alternate words: yes
Did You Answer The Prompt/or Were You Talking In Circles: answered prompt
Did You Use Words that you had to look up the definition to: no</p>

<p>How long did you take to write your essay: a whole day
How many people read your essay: 3
Did you cheat?: no</p>

<p>Rate Your Essay: probably an 8</p>

8

<p>Hehe you wrote about being a b-boy, my brother made me not writing anything relating to hiphop culture.</p>

9

<p>I wrote about being a B-Boy in my second essay.</p>