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[quote=Anonymous]A problem with writing about an EC, is that it’s already on your app somewhere. The purpose of the essay is not to understand how well an applicant can write. The purpose of the essay is for them to understand something about the applicant…remember “ Holistic admissions”.

Example I was given was, a student won many awards in soccer, the student had a part-time job refereeing soccer games, the student’s extracurricular activity is soccer. the student  has the opportunity to write a 600 word essay so that the admissions officers at the college can understand more about them and they write “I sure love soccer. “

Maybe write about how the EC affected you or how you’ve changed or grown because of the EC, although they do see a lot of these.

The best advice I was given, is the essay should say something about the student that is nowhere else on the application. And Harvard’s virtual open house session the AO said, “if the essay was printed and left on a printer, and another student at your school read it up they would know exactly who wrote it.”[/quote]

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