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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VA Tech says it is very important in the essays to write how the student would be a part of the community and what goals would be at VT and how VT would help achieve them. School counselors had spoken to a reader and were emphatic.

Don’t know how much it counts, but they said that it is “very important”. Writing generically is no good. Has to be specific to what the student would do at VT and why they want to be there.[/quote]

Every school says this. There as a joke at one college visit where an applicant had forgotten to replace all of the references to the rival school in the "why this school" essay. the general rule of thumb, if you can simply swap out the name of the school, you are not writing a good "why this school" prompt.[/quote]

+1 but the added wrinkle with VT is that their essays are the ONLY thing that they look at that can show a bit of who you are as a person. They don't read the common app essay. They don't look at teacher recommendations. Those short answers are your one place to stand out. [/quote]

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