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[quote=Anonymous]Helping kid finalize top EA app and ED1 app this weekend.

Looking for tips:

Contacts: if school asks for contacts list as many people as you can (students; alumni etc)

Activities: power verbs; quantify impact; reorder; end with an EC that makes them smile or tugs at heart (family responsibilities or something sweet)

Future plans: use “Other” to personalize and wrap description into overall application narrative/theme

Essays: read all essays out loud - if a word sounds too big, it is too big. End personal essay with a one line emotional “hook”.

Additional info: explains anything on transcript that isn’t clear or reinforces academic theme; only add extra awards that are high profile (outside school or local community); link to student material/website  - always short and bulleted ; no essays.

Glimpse video - should say something about you not covered elsewhere in any part of the app.

Overall: read the application to make sure nothing is ever repeated. Make sure there is a clear concise application theme that develops about who the kid is and what the kid values .

Imagine being an admissions officer and reading that. Do you have something to take away about the kid. A few words. If so, that’s how they will describe kid in committee.

What am I missing? 
Any tips?

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