Is it ok to write about where you live/grew up and how it impacted you and the community around you? I live in Northern Ireland and a lot of my essay is going to be about my upbringing in the warzone and how my community is divided, is this strong to write about? Thanks
@@oisinmcalinden6187 No, not yet. I applied to Columbia ED so I am currently waiting until December. I think your topic is a great one especially if you link it to how it affected/impassioned towards a particularly topic. I replied to your comment because my essay has a similar premise: how a divided society in Latvia led me to develop a passion in history and politics.
@@TheSkult oh yeah they are quite similar, I'm applying regular decision but I'll tie my upbringing into what im doing now and what I want to do, thank you I hope you get accepted into columbia, its a school where im going to apply myself :)
I wrote about how my time in a children’s hospital after my near death experience reignited my fire to pursue medicine and gave me the direction I needed (pediatric medicine). Is this a strong topic to write about?
I'm a junior but I'm planning on writing about my dad's mental illness and how he struggled in life and didn't do well and this is motivating me to go to a great school and pursue neuroscience because I want to help people who are like my dad and learn more about them so I can help my dad and people like him to overcome depression and other mental illnesses. Is this a good topic to write about?
@@siobhanbartz6460 it indeed is it shows 1. you are motivated 2. you want to help society 3. you have a personal connect with the career you want to pursue 4. like brooke said shows a bit of vulnerability a peek into your family
I'm writing about a time when I was at a folk festival with my family, there was a gas leak, and as everyone was running away from the festival, I overcame my regular anxiety so that I could find my family and get us out of there. Is this good? It doesn't have much to do with my academics but I think it's one of my better stories and (maybe?) shows a bit about who I am.
I wrote about my generalized anxiety and how covid exacerbated my condition. This was for my covid specific additional information essay. I have begun to learn how to manage it better and made sure to clarify that in the tail end of the essay. Does that clarify that it is not an overbearing weakness or does it sound like I am just showing vulnerability for the sake of vulnerability?
I think that’s good, my COVID specific one is explaining that my grades were really bad last year because I was really depressed with covid but I’m getting better now and my grades are improving
@@allieb2147 idk if you've already applied, i have a similar idea but i was thinking of also adding the way i overcame my depression just thought i'd let you know if you wanna do that too
I did EA but I applied two weeks ago cuz I need financial aid and as an international student it will take my stuff longer for the css to process. I barely just finished the financial aid process yesterday and the tax documents are still not processed yet 😭
I’ve been researching and is writing about how my eating disorder lead to my passion for food science and cooking a bad topic I know eating disorders are risky but if I focus on the 2nd part will it be helpful I have overcome my Ed which happened during middle school
Other things to avoid: 1. Exaggerations. (Or worse, lies.) No, that 3 day trip to the two-thirds world or that 2 week summer class did not change your life. And certainly don't fabricate stuff for college admissions. If your grandma didn't suffer for 30 years from carcinoma and that inspired you to head towards a biomedical engineering program to keep your options open for med school and research work, don't make it up. 2. Topics that bore you. 3. Similarly, topics that you THINK you should write about because they are the popular buzzwords/buzzphrases but you don't really care about. For instance, I interview for MIT, and I had one applicant say that he thought space exploration was "highly important to him." (He wanted to major in CS, not Aero/Astro.) All I have to do as an interviewer is ask you some pointed questions how you have explored these topics and if it's nothing, you better believe that will be pointed out in my report. (In other words, if you think space exploration is important, what have you investigated on your own? What have you done about it?) Or maybe your cause du jour is income inequality or whatever other cause. Fine -- what have you done about it? Have you done any research? etc.
After finishing my common app essay, I realized that it dealt with two prompts (#1 and #2) but didn’t completely cover everything asked of me in either prompt. Should I select the prompt that it relates to most or should I select the last prompt that is an essay of your choice? Will I be penalized for not answering a specific prompt or will it be fine because, although I’m selecting the prompt of an essay of my choosing, my essay is about different portions of the above prompts?
Personally I’ve been told to not worry about the prompts for the general common app essay. I’ve read so many things that said you’re even better off never looking at them. If you can’t decide you can always just pick the last “make your own prompt” prompt
If it's a kind of vacation that only super duper rich people can go on, then try to avoid it. Otherwise it's mostly fine. If there's a specific incident that happened when you were on vacation and if that's what you're writing about, my advice would be to focus on that specific incident and gloss over the vacation part. If the main topic itself IS the vacation and you're writing something about 1) how it opened your mind to the diversity in the world 2) how it changed your views on how poor people live or smth, DON'T write it. (I'm just mentioning two of the most common vacation essays that people write.) Just avoid sounding like you're too full of yourself and you'll be fine.
You are speaking too fast. And can I add in my essay future based technology, like what expectations do you want by the help of science and technology.
That is cool, I'm gay too, but I'm definetely not gonna write my essays about it once I don't feel confortable doing so, and for me it would be too personal/hard. But If u feel if u have something spectacular to show with it, go for it!
I know most people will say yes, write about it, because that's you. And I am not against the fact that you are gay but keep in mind, you don't know who is going to read your essay. You can write about being gay though but don't make it seem like a conflict between straight and gay people
when the deadline line is right around the corner and you want to make sure your essay isn't a bad idea.
literally
Yeah, knowing this 3 days before deadline is so helpful
I've already applied to my EA school but I'm still watching this 😭😂
@@JustAnotherLokiStan me too 😅
@@vishalthestupid nice! Where'd you apply?
@@JustAnotherLokiStan Harvard
@@vishalthestupid ooh me too! Good luck!
I’m watching this video right now and praying my essay topic isn’t mentioned.
What was your topic?
Same🤣
+1 🤣🤣🤣
that lil animation at 6:57 is so real
Is it ok to write about where you live/grew up and how it impacted you and the community around you? I live in Northern Ireland and a lot of my essay is going to be about my upbringing in the warzone and how my community is divided, is this strong to write about?
Thanks
that’s fire
Yep, wrote mine about political polarisation in Latvia.
@@TheSkult did you get accepted anywhere?
@@oisinmcalinden6187 No, not yet. I applied to Columbia ED so I am currently waiting until December. I think your topic is a great one especially if you link it to how it affected/impassioned towards a particularly topic. I replied to your comment because my essay has a similar premise: how a divided society in Latvia led me to develop a passion in history and politics.
@@TheSkult oh yeah they are quite similar, I'm applying regular decision but I'll tie my upbringing into what im doing now and what I want to do, thank you
I hope you get accepted into columbia, its a school where im going to apply myself :)
I wrote about how my time in a children’s hospital after my near death experience reignited my fire to pursue medicine and gave me the direction I needed (pediatric medicine). Is this a strong topic to write about?
Yes!
Yes that's a great essay!! 😁
I'm a junior but I'm planning on writing about my dad's mental illness and how he struggled in life and didn't do well and this is motivating me to go to a great school and pursue neuroscience because I want to help people who are like my dad and learn more about them so I can help my dad and people like him to overcome depression and other mental illnesses. Is this a good topic to write about?
@@siobhanbartz6460 it indeed is it shows 1. you are motivated 2. you want to help society 3. you have a personal connect with the career you want to pursue 4. like brooke said shows a bit of vulnerability a peek into your family
@@akshatshahi718 thank you! You are awesome. Thank you for responding
I'm writing about a time when I was at a folk festival with my family, there was a gas leak, and as everyone was running away from the festival, I overcame my regular anxiety so that I could find my family and get us out of there. Is this good? It doesn't have much to do with my academics but I think it's one of my better stories and (maybe?) shows a bit about who I am.
I wrote about my generalized anxiety and how covid exacerbated my condition. This was for my covid specific additional information essay. I have begun to learn how to manage it better and made sure to clarify that in the tail end of the essay. Does that clarify that it is not an overbearing weakness or does it sound like I am just showing vulnerability for the sake of vulnerability?
I think that’s good, my COVID specific one is explaining that my grades were really bad last year because I was really depressed with covid but I’m getting better now and my grades are improving
Those are both very good essay ideas. Great job!
@@allieb2147 idk if you've already applied, i have a similar idea but i was thinking of also adding the way i overcame my depression just thought i'd let you know if you wanna do that too
Who else is doing ED1 and stressing over the nov 1st deadline lol
I did EA but I applied two weeks ago cuz I need financial aid and as an international student it will take my stuff longer for the css to process. I barely just finished the financial aid process yesterday and the tax documents are still not processed yet 😭
@@JustAnotherLokiStan I feel you. I am dying here
Who is here applying to EA & ED?
Hi Supertutor TV! I love watching your videos!
I’ve been researching and is writing about how my eating disorder lead to my passion for food science and cooking a bad topic I know eating disorders are risky but if I focus on the 2nd part will it be helpful I have overcome my Ed which happened during middle school
Here I’m after submitting my application
Me too 🥲
Other things to avoid:
1. Exaggerations. (Or worse, lies.)
No, that 3 day trip to the two-thirds world or that 2 week summer class did not change your life.
And certainly don't fabricate stuff for college admissions. If your grandma didn't suffer for 30 years from carcinoma and that inspired you to head towards a biomedical engineering program to keep your options open for med school and research work, don't make it up.
2. Topics that bore you.
3. Similarly, topics that you THINK you should write about because they are the popular buzzwords/buzzphrases but you don't really care about.
For instance, I interview for MIT, and I had one applicant say that he thought space exploration was "highly important to him." (He wanted to major in CS, not Aero/Astro.)
All I have to do as an interviewer is ask you some pointed questions how you have explored these topics and if it's nothing, you better believe that will be pointed out in my report. (In other words, if you think space exploration is important, what have you investigated on your own? What have you done about it?)
Or maybe your cause du jour is income inequality or whatever other cause. Fine -- what have you done about it? Have you done any research? etc.
I wrote about my work with dog fostering and how I got involved, is this a ok topic?
Thank you so much 👏👏
What if I immigrated and did not get put in an ELD class but got over it (honest & humble smile
thanks
After finishing my common app essay, I realized that it dealt with two prompts (#1 and #2) but didn’t completely cover everything asked of me in either prompt. Should I select the prompt that it relates to most or should I select the last prompt that is an essay of your choice? Will I be penalized for not answering a specific prompt or will it be fine because, although I’m selecting the prompt of an essay of my choosing, my essay is about different portions of the above prompts?
Personally I’ve been told to not worry about the prompts for the general common app essay. I’ve read so many things that said you’re even better off never looking at them. If you can’t decide you can always just pick the last “make your own prompt” prompt
They care more about the content than it fitting into a specific prompt
Who decided to apply to which university early decision ?
My feelings are hurt 😢
But I'll avoid doing any of this.
mine is due tmr and i’m stressing
I wrote about SA issues, is that an okay topic?
*deletes entire essay*
1:08
People do that? That's wild
I lost it when Brooke said I did not want to read that essay about diarrhoea 😄😄
Second!
Is incorporating vacations into my essay showing privilege?
If it's a kind of vacation that only super duper rich people can go on, then try to avoid it. Otherwise it's mostly fine. If there's a specific incident that happened when you were on vacation and if that's what you're writing about, my advice would be to focus on that specific incident and gloss over the vacation part. If the main topic itself IS the vacation and you're writing something about 1) how it opened your mind to the diversity in the world 2) how it changed your views on how poor people live or smth, DON'T write it. (I'm just mentioning two of the most common vacation essays that people write.) Just avoid sounding like you're too full of yourself and you'll be fine.
When you see this video in 2x speed🤣🤣🤣😆
You are speaking too fast. And can I add in my essay future based technology, like what expectations do you want by the help of science and technology.
lol
Well I wrote abt my Ed oh well😐
can i write about me being gay?
Yeah but its a bit cliche (im gay) so make sure you draw some sort of deeper lesson. Not just struggles being gay.
Her advice for #3 might help
@@NicK-vd3hj k.
That is cool, I'm gay too, but I'm definetely not gonna write my essays about it once I don't feel confortable doing so, and for me it would be too personal/hard. But If u feel if u have something spectacular to show with it, go for it!
I know most people will say yes, write about it, because that's you. And I am not against the fact that you are gay but keep in mind, you don't know who is going to read your essay. You can write about being gay though but don't make it seem like a conflict between straight and gay people
Unnessery music on background. This woman has weak voice as it is
just goes to show how much you actually paid attention