среда, 5 октября 2011 г.

College Admission Essays- a way forward

- alternatively College Admission Essays- what is its future

Introduction

May, June are months for college admissions. There is rush of students to choose courses in various colleges.Colleges these days have started paying a lot of attention not only to grades/marks from class twelfth or pre university level, but also at ''college admission essays''.
Students usually applying to various colleges whether it is business, finance, law are increasingly writing ''college admission essays'' in order to stand out among millions of other students. ''College admission essays'' are a new method to access the calibre of students.
College admission essays will help the college authorities to understand the interests, likings of students. It is a method to access the capability of a student by not basing his/her performance on the marks/grades obtained in under graduate levels. Students are widely using the college admission essays as a tool to get admission into colleges. College admission essays act as a filter, college authorities are able to decide based on the essays written by students.

College Admission Essays

It refers to an essay written about the student highlighting his/her qualities suitable to that particular area of practice. The essay describes the individuals likes, qualities, aptitude, areas of interests, giving the college an eye to decide on the student. College authorities in a year receive hundreds of applications which they filter by using a cut off mark achieved by students in class twelfth.
But this method does not invariably select the best student as a student might have scored good marks in school by learning text by heart, but he/she might not be good at application of the subject. College admission essays help college to set a margin for students.
The essays help college authorities decide over equally mertious students. Like resumes can be written by candidates themselves, essays also can be written by students themselves, but in order to give a professional touch to the essays there are agencies who undertake such responsibilities. For a certain fee/payment agencies are willing to write the essays for students. The admission consultants help plan, strategy the method and the way to go about writing the essays. Students are expected to fill up certain questionnaire answering some important questions, highlighting some points. In the essay, in case the student has scored less, he/she
will have to give reasons for his/her low marks and show points which will help in covering it up.

While a student starts applying to various colleges for admission it is too late to improve one's marks already recorded, by writing a good college admission essay, he/ she will be able to catch the eyes of college authorities. There are various instant college admission essays kits available for students to refer and make use of. These kits have sample writing of students to help write one's own essay.
The agencies who specialise in college admission essays either write essays themselves with the student's help/input or substantially edit the essays written by students.
Conclusion

College admission essays are a way to seek admission into top colleges where the competition is high and tough. It helps isolating a student with good or bad grades. A good essay can fetch a student admission into a college irrespective of his grades.

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