Your college admissions essay is the one place in your application where you can truly showcase your personality and passions. The success of your essay, however, isn't about just what you say, but how you say it. Even if you have a wonderful topic for your essay, it will fall flat if the prose is wordy, flowery, full of clichés or lacking energy.
These nine tips for improving the style of your college admissions essay can help you avoid some of the most common stylistic problems admissions officers find in application essays.
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Thanks for this excellent article on college essay style. I have read other helpful strategies – from blogs to entire books on the subject. This is the best information by far. With a short example of each clearly defined tactic for improving the style of an essay, your article is actually something a high school senior can read, immediately understand the concept from the example, and use to edit an essay!