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By the time admissions officers start reading your essay, they already know all about your grades, extracurriculars and family background. What they don’t know is what you’re like in person. What are your outstanding personality traits? What is it like to spend time with you? What motivates you to take action? What are the events that have had a meaningful impact on your life? When trapped within the confines of a generic application, so many students look the same. The only way to make yourself stand out is to show admissions what makes you an individual. The written component of the application is your one true chance to show it, and it can make all the difference between rejection and admission.
In short, pretty much everyone. The average admissions reader spends 2-3 minutes on a student’s application essays, which means each student has about a commercial break’s worth of time to make a lasting impression on the person who has randomly been selected to seal their academic fate. It is imperative to make those minutes count.
Unless it is 11:30pm with an essay due at midnight, it is never too late to work with CEA. We want you to be thrilled with the writing you submit to the admissions board, and find there is almost always room for improvement. Not only that, we have extensive experience with and insight into what admissions committees are looking for when they read through a student’s essay. A fresh pair of eyes, free from the bias of the teachers and parents that know a student intimately, are always an asset. Do you love your essay? Does reading your essay make your brain launch into a Disney-fireworks-style celebration of uncontainable glee? If not, it’s probably not too late to work with us.
The parent statement is an opportunity for you to introduce your child to admissions; to give admissions a glimpse of who your child is and why they would be a great fit for the institution in question. It’s also the perfect place to address any special circumstances affecting your child/family that admissions needs to know in order to best support your child. By the time the admissions committee finishes reading your parent statement, you want them to be clamoring for what your child can contribute to their student body.
By the time admissions officers start reading your essay, they already know all about your grades, extracurriculars and family background. What they don’t know is what you’re like in person. What are your outstanding personality traits? What is it like to spend time with you? What motivates you to take action? What are the events that have had a meaningful impact on your life? When trapped within the confines of a generic application, so many students look the same. The only way to make yourself stand out is to show admissions what makes you an individual. The written component of the application is your one true chance to show it, and it can make all the difference between rejection and admission.
In short, pretty much everyone. The average admissions reader spends 2-3 minutes on a student’s application essays, which means each student has about a commercial break’s worth of time to make a lasting impression on the person who has randomly been selected to seal their academic fate. It is imperative to make those minutes count.
Unless it is 11:30pm with an essay due at midnight, it is never too late to work with CEA. We want you to be thrilled with the writing you submit to the admissions board, and find there is almost always room for improvement. Not only that, we have extensive experience with and insight into what admissions committees are looking for when they read through a student’s essay. A fresh pair of eyes, free from the bias of the teachers and parents that know a student intimately, are always an asset. Do you love your essay? Does reading your essay make your brain launch into a Disney-fireworks-style celebration of uncontainable glee? If not, it’s probably not too late to work with us.
The parent statement is an opportunity for you to introduce your child to admissions; to give admissions a glimpse of who your child is and why they would be a great fit for the institution in question. It’s also the perfect place to address any special circumstances affecting your child/family that admissions needs to know in order to best support your child. By the time the admissions committee finishes reading your parent statement, you want them to be clamoring for what your child can contribute to their student body.
