<aside> 👨🏿‍💻 AKA the ‘Common App’, the American UCAS. Time to start gathering the pieces and start building an application. The application takes a while to fully complete, but it takes only a few minutes to create an application and start building it up. Small but consistent work always wins in the end. Create an account today here. If you’ve never been to university you’re a ‘First Year Student’.

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The average admission officer has 12 minutes to read your application. In that 12 minutes, you have to make them whisper ‘wow’ five times. You want to captivate them for the entirety of the minutes. They should feel blessed to have read your application. They should feel that their life has been made better by understanding that there is a super cool powerful person in the world. The next stage would be to bring them to campus. This makes the difference between a winning and losing application.

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Here is how I got a full ride to Columbia University & MIT, both ranked Top 10 in the World, and are the best colleges in the world in their own ways. This application unlocked a full-ride to the most expensive college on the planet. Plus top 10% of admits scholarship….

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Common App Essay - the center of your application.

College essays let admissions officers get to know you better and assess whether you’d be a good fit at their institution. Essays should be much more reflective and personal than a UCAS personal statement and it’s important to understand the difference in style.

How to make a killer essay:

• Be very interesting - this is your chance to bring your grades and test scores to life.
  • Don't hold back with expressing your passions or concerns for issues
• Produce something they’ve never seen before - always ask yourself if someone else could have written the same essay. It needs to be impressive or shocking or super memorable, all 3 if possible. Remember they are looking at tens of thousands of applications. Are they going to remember yours?
• Opinion - the best thing to fill the 3000 characters with is a story, an anecdote. That’s the most honest reflection of your life. You don’t need to make anything necessarily new for the essay, you’ve lived a lot of years and seen and done a lot already. Just show them who you are, just give a reflection. Give a perspective that only you can show them, no one else in the world.
  • I discussed my passion for engineering and parkour and how they intersect in my brain. Two seemingly unrelated things, I am the one that is the link between those two. My essay, story, takes one through that.
  • To expand on the anecdote idea - maybe an event that made you realize you wanted to study Psychology. Or call on events in the past and how they changed you or why it was an important experience.
  • If you have experienced adversity in your life, let them know. It’s part of your story.
  • Maybe talk about things you did at a young age that indicated your academic path
• Anything you write needs to link more to whether you can be a great leader or researcher. It’s good to weave in leadership/research positions, but deep dive into why it connects with you so much.
  • Focus on a 'super' accomplishment/super activity/very unique activity. The US is full of kids who accomplish a lot. Leadership positions are cool, but what impact did you make? That's really the most important thing. Being a member & making an impact > being a leader and simply fulfilling responsibilities.