How to CORRECTLY write about a trauma in your college admissions essay

For many of you high school, life has been filled with lots of diverse experiences, both positive and negative. Some of you have faced dark times or painful adversity that have become part of your growth story.
In this episode, we dig into the trauma essay in college admissions, where three admissions experts share the RIGHT way to compose an essay about your darkest traumas and create a powerful story of resilience that turns pain into progress. We review a sample of a Common App essay that got into Dartmouth, partly because of her impactful, profoundly vulnerable narrative. She writes how her traumas helped her redefine love, learning that it lies not in the grand gestures, but in many consistent tiny acts of kindness over time.
If you think you might like to write an essay that falls into this genre, tune in to learn how to avoid the sob story that would depress admissions officers and instead portray an extraordinary applicant to the world's most selective universities.
What do you think about choosing this topic to write about in the college essay? Comment below!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - 1:05 Introduction
1:05 - 4:40 The trauma college essay genre
4:40 - 5:24 Don't make this mistake
5:30 - 6:30 Mental health in college admissions
6:30 - 8:00 Student backstory
8:00 - 14:11 Successful essay sample review
14:11 - 15:30 Why this essay worked
15:30 - 16:34 Vulnerability and insight
16:34 - 18:40 Immersing in the narrative
18:40 - 19:58 Show, don't tell
19:58 - 21: 46 Full circle moments
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