Today, many high school graduates aspiring to join college have to confront the stark reality that at least half of them are not guaranteed a place in their first choice college.
Faced with a high number of competing students against a backdrop of limited opportunities, the only way to decide who gets a place and who does not is very often the entrance essay.
This means that to raise your chances, you must have a very good entrance essay. The entrance essay should bring out your personality therefore choosing a personal topic for the essay can be a good staring point.
Since the admissions officers have to plough through an unbearably large number of applicants’ essays, the entrance essay is often limited to a page. Therefore, it helps choose a narrow topic which you can explore in depth. Use an interesting writing style for the entrance essay and where possible, try to show and not to tell.
