When crafting a personal statement for your college application, it’s easy to get caught up in listing your accomplishments. The result is a cliché essay known in admissions circles as “The Résumé Essay.” It’s the prose version of your application, and it makes for miserable reading. But you can fix it.
These days, mission trips are as frequently attended as summer vacations. And for the college applicant, they provide the perfect subject for a personal statement. There’s multiculturalism, diversity, service, personal growth. But this essay is just as perfect as it is unoriginal…and that’s the problem.
Do College Rankings Really Matter?
When college rankings come out, everyone from moms to university presidents rush the web to find out how certain colleges did. But do they really matter? It depends on who you ask (and where they’re ranked). As with many things, it’s important to cast a critical eye to these stats.