#application tip

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Application Advice

Have someone who doesn’t know you well read your resume. See if they have any questions about it. If anything is unclear to them, it will probably be unclear to us too.

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Application Advice

Write about what you love most, not what you think we’ll love most.

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Application Advice

Make sure your resume on the Common App states the name of the club and not just what you did it in. You’d be surprised how often this mistake is made.

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Application Tip

Imagine you’re in a room with all of the other students who applied to the same school. You’re asked to share something about yourself that’s not true for anyone else.

Whatever you’d say... you probably want to talk about that in your application somewhere.

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Application Tip

If you hear about a “cool” way to write your essay (i.e. “Recipe of Me), it means we’ve already read hundreds of them. Don’t be gimmicky. Be authentic.

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Application Tip

We don’t expect you to be an expert in the major you’re applying to, but we do expect you to be able to articulate why you’re passionate about it.

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College Application Tip

Don’t say that you want to be a doctor because you “want to help people”. Every occupation other than super villain helps people in some way. Tell us why you want to help people in this SPECIFIC way.

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College Application Tip

Tell us what you love, but don’t tell us just one thing. If you write about soccer in your essay, and your resume is mainly soccer teams, soccer coaching, soccer fundraising, etc., we don’t get to learn much about you.