Your college admission essay is the most powerful weapon against your competitors. If you manage to show yourself to advantage in it and produce an impressive essay – our congratulations – you are a student of a desired college or university.

Your essay should stand you out among other applicants and convince the committee that you deserve the honor of being a part of their college.

This brief guidance will help you to produce a winning essay.

Your college admission essay should answer two fundamental questions: Who am I? How can I contribute to the establishment?

Before writing, find out enough information about the college you are going to apply to. Include the relevant information about the educational establishment into your essay. It will show the committee your interest, diligence and commitment to their college/ university.

Introduction gives you an opportunity to grab the reader’s attention and evoke their interest. You may choose to open your essay with a controversial issue, a question or an appealing quotation.

You will present your valuable experiences and accomplishments in the body of your essay. You should provide a detailed description for them to sound reasonable.

Concentrate only on your achievements, significant events from your life.

Stress the positive and optimistic opinions.

In every paragraph you develop a new theme.

The paragraphs should be logically connected between each other to keep the natural course of the essay.

Many undergraduates tend to stuff their essays with long, complicated words to produce an impression of an educated person. It does not work, really. Instead it makes your essay unnatural and confusing.

Prefer a simple word to its big synonym.

In the last sentences of your essay which constitute the conclusion, you emphasize your goals once again and leave the reader with a positive impression.

Be precise, direct and conclude with a thrill!