Admission Tips
It is essential for you to provide focus to your application, helping admissions officers to get a message about who you are as a person, and what you value.This message needs to be reinforced in the different elements of your application - from your letters of recommendation to your college interview.Without sending admissions committees a coherent message about who you are, you risk being viewed as lacking depth. Admissions officers could have a hard time distinguishing you from the thousands of other applicants to their college.
It is essential for you to provide focus to your application
Chapter 9 of
Admissions Success deals with five character traits - the 5 Core Qualities - that admissions committees value in applicants:
PassionUniquenessEmpathyMaturityLeadershipYou will need to think carefully about the message you wish to convey about yourself, which should bring out the ways in which you possess one or more of these qualities.My Personal Summary is a worksheet that accompanies Admissions Success. This worksheet will help you to create a picture of yourself around which you can unify the different elements of your college application.
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