What Do Colleges Look For in an Essay?
Sarah Farbman July 29, 2025 No Comments
What do colleges look for in an essay? An expert college admissions advisor offers tips on what your college essay should contain.
What do colleges look for in an essay? An expert college admissions advisor offers tips on what your college essay should contain.
In this post, Great College Advice provides insight in how to best address the personal growth Common App essay prompt.
Great College Advice’s Jamie Berger discusses Prompt #2 of the Common App essay, the failure prompt.
Any writer has to consider the audience for whom they are writing. Your college essay is no different. Think long and hard about how the admissions officer will approach the process of reading your personal statement. And then prepare to give that person a whiz-bang piece of prose.
This post is another in my series on how to address the college application essay prompts from the Coalition App.
Mark introduces the essay topics from the Coalition Application for 2017-2018.
Mark offers advice on how to write a great college essay based on your background, identity, interests, or talents.