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The Admission Essay
Admission Essay is usually requested to supplement information provided on an application form for a place at an academic institution or other vacancy on a course.
The information you provide will be used by the admissions board of the school, college or university to which you are applying to help them assess your suitability for the place and how the board feels that you will contribute to academic life. There are two forms of admission essay:
- Those that require a detailed exploration of your hobbies, interests and personality
- Those that set a question such as ‘write about an important person in your life’.
Both basically fulfil the same function - i.e. to tell the board more about you as a person - but as the first of these is by far the more common, it will be the one concentrated on in this brief guide.
Getting started on an Admission Essay
One of the most difficult aspects of an Admission Essay for the majority of students is that it is so hard to break away from the modesty we are all used to adopting in life. From an early age we are taught to ‘play down’ our achievements, for fear of appearing boastful.
However, the whole point of the admission essay is to ‘sell yourself’ so you must sit down and list everything you can think of to convince the admissions board of your suitability. You may think that you have nothing to say but once you start to go over all your hobbies, activities and interests you will be very surprised just how much there is to say. Don’t be afraid to include non-academic topics in your admission essay as the board already has your academic achievements listed on the application form and/or on your curriculum vitae. What you need here is precisely the ‘non-academic’ part of your life to provide a picture of a fully rounded person.
Developing your Admission Essay
Once you have compiled your list, you should begin to organize your activities into sections dealing with different aspects of your life, structuring your writing to the best of your ability, with care paid to spelling, grammar and punctuation. Some ideas to focus on might be:
- Team activities - these give the board an indication of how keen you are to work with others.
- Leadership qualities - these give the board an idea of your character as if you have been elected or chosen to lead others it says a great deal about you as a person.
- Hobbies/jobs which you have undertaken that relate to the course for which you are applying. This is important as it indicates that you have already begun to explore areas that your course might cover and shows commitment.
Remember that the most important thing about an admission essay is that it should assist the academic institution to see you as a valuable addition to their number and that you should present yourself as such: ‘good luck’!
