Any tips for the College Personal Essay/Statement?Answered
I am a high school junior who is about to be a high school senior. I am working on my common app essay/statement and I need some tips and advice on how to write it. Thank you.
I am struggling with coming up with a good story and ideas supporting the story.
I already have a topic for the story.
Ok, what is your topic? Ideally whatever the topic is would be something you could easily come up with a good story for so it's possible you might want to come up with a new topic. If that ends up being the case we can brainstorm together.
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Ok, checking back in to see how things are going for you. Knowing what you're planning on writing about can be helpful to provide more specific and relevant advice. Check out some of these links which might be able to help:
https://blog.collegevine.com/how-to-write-the-common-application-essays-2021-2022/
https://blog.collegevine.com/common-app-essay-examples/
https://blog.collegevine.com/how-to-write-your-college-essay-the-ultimate-step-by-step-guide/
https://www.collegevine.com/livestreams/214/how-to-write-the-2020-21-common-app-essay
I think this will give you a good starting point. If you're still hitting a wall let me know and we can try to work it out together!
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What particularly are you struggling with? The tips and advice are probably going to be different if you're having trouble coming up with a ideas for a topic vs. you have a topic but are having trouble writing about it.