Hey Guys, are you ready to dig into your essays? Application essays are specifically and cleverly designed to get into your head. Why are they asking these questions? What are they looking for? Here I want to post the essay analysis for some essay questions.
For University of Michigan (Ross)
Essay 1: What are you most proud of professionally and why? What did you learn from that experience?(400 words)
Similar to one of Haas's questions: “What is your most significant professional accomplishment?” In fact, we see no real important difference between the two. While Haas specifies “accomplishment,” so too does Ross, essentially.
Your CHOICE of “thing you are most proud of (professionally)” will say something. The admissions committee will have access to the full slate of your professional list of greatest hits on your resume.
The one that you are “most proud of” will reveal something the resume is not likely to convey. For example, perhaps you talk about a small achievement during your very first job that inspired you to embrace RISK. Or you can talk about a virtually consequence-less accomplishment of turning a company adversary into your greatest ally throughsome kind of tactical brilliance. The most significant accomplishment may not have anything to do with “the bottom line.” Whatever you decide to talk about, it must make us more convinced that you are the type of person who is likely to succeed in the future. We will get that feeling from witnessing self-awareness,humility, and determination in your response.
Structure for this one can go something like this:
1. SETUP the aspect that makes this story interesting. If you write about something that REVEALED something about you, set that up (for example: “My background was in fashion. That was my family business. Imagine my surprise when the head of IT at Company X fellsick, and the COO turned to me to step in and run the show.”
2. Walk us through “the event, the actions, the stuff.”
3. Now, for the second HALF of this essay(so at least 200 words), explain why this is meaningful. Explain what this revealed to YOU about yourself and your abilities (or whatever it is), andspecifically what that implies about your FUTURE.
We’re not writing in a vacuum folks… this must suggest your ability to “win” down the road. You have to articulate that as you’re explaining why you chose to write about this particular episode. Those who address that CONTEXT, will crush this question. First drafts here may successfully answer the “why this is significant” piece, but will likely MISS the “and here’s why this demonstrates that I will be a future success” aspect.
If you have a question about your applications, feel free to leave a comment here or send me a private message here or on Wechat. I'm happy to help!
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发表于 2015-6-30 10:23:39
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