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Knowing how to write a college essay is a useful skill for anyone who plans to go to college. Most colleges and universities ask you to submit a writing sample with your application. As a student, you’ll also write essays in your courses. Impress your professors with your knowledge and skill by using these great essay writing tips.
Prepare to Answer the Question
Most college essays ask you to answer a question or synthesize information you learned in class. Review notes you have from lectures, read the recommended texts and make sure you understand the topic. You should refer to these sources in your essay.
Plan Your Essay
Many students see planning as a waste of time, but it actually saves you time. Take a few minutes to think about the topic and what you want to say about it. You can write an outline, draw a chart or use a graphic organizer to arrange your ideas. This gives you a chance to spot problems in your ideas before you spend time writing out the paragraphs.
Choose a Writing Method That Feels Comfortable
You might have to type your essay before turning it in, but that doesn’t mean you have to write it that way. Some people find it easy to write out their ideas by hand. Others prefer typing in a word processor where they can erase and rewrite as needed. Find the one that works best for you and stick with it.
View It as a Conversation
Writing is a form of communication, so think of your essay as a conversation between you and the reader. Think about your response to the source material and the topic. Decide what you want to tell the reader about the topic. Then, stay focused on your response as you write.
Provide the Context in the Introduction
If you look at an example of an essay introduction, you’ll see that the best essays give the reader a context. Think of how you introduce two people to each other. You share the details you think they will find most interesting. Do this in your essay by stating what it’s about and then telling readers what the issue is.
Explain What Needs to be Explained
Sometimes you have to explain concepts or define words to help the reader understand your viewpoint. You also have to explain the reasoning behind your ideas. For example, it’s not enough to write that your greatest achievement is running an ultra marathon. You might need to define ultra marathon and explain why finishing the race is such an accomplishment.
Answer All the Questions
After you finish writing the first draft of your essay, make sure you’ve answered all the questions you were supposed to answer. For example, essays in compare and contrast format should show the similarities and differences between ideas, objects or events. If you’re writing about a significant achievement, describe what you did and how it affected you.
Stay Focused as You Write
Writing requires concentration. Find a place where you have few distractions and give yourself time to write without interruptions. Don’t wait until the night before the essay is due to start working on it.
Read the Essay Aloud to Proofread
When you finish writing your essay, read it aloud. You can do this by yourself or ask someone to listen to you read it. You’ll notice places where the ideas don’t make sense, and your listener can give you feedback about your ideas.
Avoid Filling the Page with Words
A great essay does more than follow an essay layout. It has something to say. Sometimes students panic and write everything they know about a topic or summarize everything in the source material. Your job as a writer is to show why this information is important.
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Given my budding interest in A.I. storytelling, I began exploring with a simple question: can A.I. improve college application essays?
The answer is a resounding YES , and the evidence for why you should heed this advice during the coming weeks is compelling — and I have the data to prove it.
More than 100 successful application essays found online were analyzed through Grammarly's A.I. to compile usage statistics and identify commonalities. The dataset includes 55 successful Harvard application essays, 50 successful Yale admissions essays, and more than 30 "before" and 30 "after" publicly-available essays submitted by real applicants before editing or coaching and the same essay post-coaching. The questions included:
What differentiates successful Harvard and Yale admissions essays from essays by students at less prestigious institutions?
Do Harvard essays score better than Yale ones?
Can applicants glean any actionable insights to improve their essays?
Do paid essay coaches improve essay scores based on "before" and "after" comparisons?
While I have no affiliation with Grammarly, I selected that platform because it's one of the leading consumer writing A.I.s on the market, and it's mostly free. According to TechCrunch, Grammarly is valued at more than $1 billion and has invested at least $200 million in its technology, so it seemed an excellent place to begin. Additionally, EssayMaster was selected as the source of essays because they have many sample succesful admissions essays accepted by top institutions.
For the admissions essay and this article, all you need to know about deep-learning algorithms is why the computer composes one sentence and not another or says one thing is wrong but not another is completely incomprehensible to a human seeking to deconstruct the algorithm, even in theory. That's simply the nature of machine-learning.
Furthermore, Wired Magazine has observed that the nature of the technology "produces outcomes based on so many different conditions being transformed by so many layers of neural networks that humans simply cannot comprehend the model the computer has built for itself."
So now that you know you can't understand it, how can A.I. improve an admissions essay?
Five Easy Steps to Improve College Application Essays with A.I.
Based on the data, you should do these five things to optimize your essays:
1. Score at least a 95 on Grammarly for "Overall score."
Successful Harvard and Yale essays in the data set scored on average 97.4 with a median of 98. Meanwhile, the average "before" for an essay in the EssayMaster dataset is 88.1. While significantly different, no one would be surprised that Harvard and Yale admits write better than average; however, the data also indicates the gap can be closed. Interestingly, the average "after" score for an essay is 97.6, consistent with what's expected for Harvard or Yale admission. Wise applicants should run their essays through Grammarly to determine their score then work to improve it. The basic service is free, so what's the harm?
2. All college admissions essays should score "Very Engaging."
Every single successful college admissions essay accepted by Harvard or Yale in the dataset was "very engaging" based on Grammarly's score — it's a relevant baseline. If your essays aren't scoring "Very engaging," you should consider why and determine how you can improve.
3. Get the delivery "Just Right"
About 87 percent of accepted Harvard and Yale essays had a delivery that scored "Just Right," the rest was "Slightly Off." Though less important than engagement, nailing the delivery and tonally is critical for success. The 13 percent of essays that were "slightly off" still got into Harvard and Yale. But not surprisingly, nearly one-third of the "before" essays were "slightly off." To improve delivery, there are free resources, like EssayMaster’s admissions essay writing tips to learn how to improve an essay's delivery yourself.
4. Use 50–55 percent unique words and around 33 percent rare words, but be mindful when using a thesaurus!
The percentage of unique words is how many total words are in the essay just once over the total number of words. The percentage of rare words are those that are less frequently used in English. An average of 54 percent of the words used in Harvard and Yale essays were unique compared to the other essays 48 percent The minimum number of unique words in Harvard and Yale essays was 40 percent versus 34 percent for the other essays. The percentage of rare words used in Harvard or Yale admissions essays was 33 percent versus 31 percent for the "before" essays.
The Thesaurus may sometimes be useful, but don't just select the first synonym. Carefully review the usage for each meaning to choose the best words to convey your meaning. If the word doesn't fit the writing context, you could commit the writing error that paves the admission denial path.
5. At least be "clear."
66 percent of Harvard and Yale essays scored "very clear" on Grammarly's clarity metric, while 11 percent were "mostly clear," and 23 percent were "clear." That said, while "clarity" was probably the least useful metric reported, a greater percentage of the "before" essays were "very clear." So as long as you're "clear" or better, you are in good company.
So, are Harvard essays better than Yale essays … and other urgent questions?
We began this journey with several urgent questions. Here are the answers:
Successful Harvard and Yale essays score better than other applicants' essays by about 10 points using Grammarly. They use more unique and rare words, and they're "just right" on delivery.
On the question of whether Harvard essays score better than Yale essays, Harvard beats Yale 98 to 98. The medians of both were 98. Yale has slightly more unique words, while Harvard had slightly more rare words.
Applicants can improve essays in a variety of fairly obvious ways. Most importantly, using Grammarly, applicants can achieve an overall score of at least 95 and aim for a "very engaging" score and a "just right" delivery score.
It was self-evident that paid essay coaches, like those at EssayMaster , improved essays, at least by the measure of Grammarly A.I. The before set scored an 88, while the after group scored a 98 for the dataset's essays.
During the next several decades, the state-of-the-art in storytelling will probably consist of A.I.-assisted human editing. Between five to ten years, computers will reliably suggest sentences and topics for future paragraphs ending in the singularity of Deep Story A.I., where human-produced writing is clearly inferior to machine-produced creativity.
In a future where sophisticated machines are producing stellar admissions essays, then the only capable scorer will be other machines. At that point, the audience for machine writing will be machine scoring.
If the perception is that admissions committees operate in a star chamber today, wait until A.I. renders candidate decisions incomprehensible, even in theory. Perhaps that day has already arrived. EssayMaster combines technology with years of experience in the industry and will help you achieve the optimal essay.
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Looking for good news about the college admissions process these days? You won't find much of it. Not only has the cost of attending college doubled on average since the 1980s, but also it's gotten considerably harder to get in. The majority of colleges in America have witnessed a plummeting acceptance rate as the number of student applications has exploded. Fifty years ago you had a 20 percent shot at getting into Harvard (all things equal, of course). Now the Crimson's acceptance rate is about 5 percent. In the last 10 years alone, the acceptance rate at many major universities has been cut in half . It's almost enough to make a kid consider trying out for the rowing team .
As if applicants didn't have enough to stress about, colleges have been making it more onerous to apply—requiring additional interviews, recommendations, and SAT Subject Tests. But the most burdensome of them all is an old standby: the application essay.
Essay requirements vary widely from school to school. The 150-plus members of the Coalition for College (which includes Harvard and Vanderbilt) requires a single 500-word essay selected from prompts such as "Describe a time when you made a meaningful contribution to others in which the greater good was your focus. Discuss the challenges and rewards of making your contribution." Those with eyes on the University of California system must write a whopping four essays, with prompts such as "Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome an educational barrier you have faced."
Students can reuse essays with other colleges if the prompts are similar enough—or if the schools happen to be members of the same application partnership—but you'd be surprised how seldom this occurs. My daughter found that out the hard way, when she learned that she'd have to write 12 separate essays to cover just five schools.
What's a kid to do who doesn't have parents who both work full-time as writers and editors? Just run their essay through Microsoft grammar check and hope for the best? Good luck. The acceptance rate at the University of Chicago has dropped 81 percent in the last 12 years. It doesn't take a Rhodes scholar to know that if you don't put your best foot forward, you may as well not even bother.
All of this led me to the curious world of online editing services. While you can hire a consultant to help guide your child through this overwhelming maze, these consultants are expensive and much of their work involves managing the complex application process, figuring out which colleges are a good fit, and brainstorming essay topics. If you just need help whipping an already written essay into better shape, an online editor might be a better (and much cheaper) fit.
To be sure, some of these services are exorbitantly expensive. Services like EssayEdge and TopAdmit can run you close to $200 for editing a single essay of fewer than 400 words. I've seen prices as high as $379 after various upsells. Word for word, that's more than what my editor at WIRED makes. (Hi, Mike!)
The good news is there are plenty of more affordable options available. I tested four of them, all reasonably priced and seemingly legitimate. Most of these services charge based on a combination of the word count of the original essay and the turnaround time required. I used the same raw essay from my daughter as a test piece for each of the four services, and requested the slowest turnaround time each of them offered to minimize the cost. I submitted her 383-word raw essay at the same time to each of the services, on a Wednesday afternoon. I gave all the services minimal guidance with my submission, noting only (when prompted) that this was a college application essay. All four of the services allow you to upload a Microsoft Word document and receive a red-lined and comment-filled Word document in return.
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When I received the revised essays, I reviewed them along with my wife (also a professional writer) and my daughter, the author. The reviews were done blind, without indicating the source of any of the edits, and we all rated each essay on a 1 to 10 scale. I also threw in a copy that I roughly edited. For the sake of comparison, the raw essay scored an average of 4.8, while my edit garnered a 6.9.
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Total price: $13.91, 48-hour turnaround promised. Edit received within 24 hours.
Scribendi offers seven different turnaround time tiers, but its 72-hour and one-week turnarounds were the same price as the 48-hour turnaround. A four-hour turnaround was quoted at $28.53. Scribendi returned both a changes-tracked version of the document and a "clean" version with all edits accepted. Scribendi's edit was not just the fastest, it was incredibly thorough—almost nitpicky—with 16 comments or prompts to the writer suggesting avenues for additional content or revisions that were beyond the scope of a simple edit. Oddly, the final edit didn't resonate with readers, who largely felt it was somewhat awkward and clunky in its overall flow. That said, the editor's notes and the service's overall speed were a big plusses.
Readers' rating: 5.0
Total price: $13.90, three-day turnaround promised. Edit received after two days.
Elite Editing has an Advanced Editing service for $40, but the $13.90 plan I chose offers only "basic editing," which doesn't include "suggested rewrites to eliminate awkward phrasing, repetition, passive voice, etc." and "taking into account your original assignment." Three days is the standard turnaround; one-day turnaround for the Basic Editing plan would have cost $19.90. The site crashed when I checked out, but my payment and submission both went through successfully. As promised, Elite's edit was indeed basic. Its editor made the fewest changes of any of the services and left only three comments, one of which was about whether the use of indentations and double-spacing was appropriate. While Elite's edits were correct, they weren't terribly deep—although that was enough to propel it to a second-place finish from the readers.
Readers' rating: 5.7
Total price: $15.32, five-day turnaround promised. Edit received after four days.
Wordvice has eight different pricing tiers, with rates as low as 4 cents per word for a seven-day turnaround, though that tier was limited to materials longer than 3,000 words. The five-day turnaround tier was only marginally more expensive. When I received Wordvice's edited document, I was offered an upsell for a "second look" (basically another edit) for 30 percent off. Wordvice's embedded commentary was nearly as thorough as Scribendi's, though Wordvice was less obsessive over grammar and more focused on overall clarity. Turns out that was the right move: Wordvice's edit was the overall favorite of the quartet, and the finished draft reads cleanly and clearly.
Readers' rating: 6.3
Total price: $31.33, seven-day turnaround promised. Edit received after four days.
Scribbr initially quoted a price of $25.36, but I shelled out an extra $6 for both the "structure check" and "clarity check" options, despite not really understanding what those were. Prices include a 2 percent surcharge for using a credit card. For those in a hurry, 24-hour turnaround doubles the price. Scribbr seems more focused on editing academic coursework essays than admissions essays, with a relatively formal structure applied to its edits (removing contractions completely, for example). Editor's commentary was sparse, though on target. This draft was the most divisive of the services, earning high marks from my wife but very low marks from my daughter, who thought it stripped the writing of her voice.
Readers' rating: 5.3
Any good college essay has to end with a conclusion, so here are a few takeaways. First, all of the services sent back essays that were, on average, felt to be an improvement over the original draft, with all of them catching numerous spelling and grammatical errors—so students with no professional editing help may do well to consider them, especially given how affordable these services are. That said, also remember that when you engage with an editing service, you're really engaging with a single (anonymous) editor who you won't ever meet or be able to interact with. That editor won't have any level of understanding of the writer's personality beyond what's on the page, and quality will necessarily vary from one editor to another, even within a given editing service.
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