Stephanie Kennedy If you’re like most of us this summer, you’ve completely lost track of what day it is, when the week begins and the weekend ends…
But Summer 2020 is waning fast, and now is not the time to hide under the covers of denial. Seniors, it would be wise for you to use what’s left of summer to work on your college essays. This gives you valuable time to think, write, reflect, rewrite, and really get solid on what you want your essays to say about you. “But,” you resist, “I’m just using the Common App, and there’s just one simple essay; no big deal, right?” AHA! I say! Especially this year, that one little 650-word essay holds more weight than ever.
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Hannah Ajibola Writing college essays is a much more time-consuming process than most expect going into the college admissions process. Depending on the colleges you apply to, a student can go from writing a single Common App or Coalition essay (like if you are applying to UMD) to writing tons of supplements for varying colleges. I myself ended up writing about 15 essays when I only applied to 6 schools. This is also a result of applying to Honors Colleges as well. Some supplements vary from a few sentences to a full page essay depending on the prompt and word count limit. That is why it is imperative to start early. You want to start, especially your general “who you are” essay, the summer before your senior year. This gives you the optimal amount of time to go through several drafts with editing and revising and asking others to read it and see if they can hear your voice in it. As you narrow your college lists, you can start to look at the specific prompts and word/length requirements.
Stephanie Kennedy After you’ve been recruited and wooed by a college, it can be incredibly difficult to say the “no thank you” to one of them. Here’s our advice for how to decline a college acceptance: Stephanie Kennedy College seniors are scrambling to prepare themselves for the job search, and they expect the Career Services department to help. With a few short months before graduation and soon-due college loan payments, many college seniors will head to their university’s Career Services Office for the first time. That is their first mistake.
College officials and Purdue University/Gallup Surveys find that only 40% of college students ever visit Career Services. Of those who do, most wait until their senior year, usually far too late to make a significant positive impact on their job search. The same studies show that students who do utilize Career Services as early as freshman year are much more likely to be satisfied with the benefits and successful in finding a job before graduation. |