{"id":1471,"date":"2013-12-27t09:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-27t09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/sat\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2015-04-15t20:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15t20:07:05","slug":"guest-post-resourceful-essay-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/college-admissions\/guest-post-resourceful-essay-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"resourceful essay recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>tired from writing endless personal statements? check out <\/i><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accepted.com\/\" rel=\"sponsored\"><b><i>accepted<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>\u2019s top tips for thoughtfully recycling and adapting your admissions essays.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>you\u2019re applying to six different schools and each one requires 2-7 <a href=\"http:\/\/info.accepted.com\/example-to-exemplary\/\" rel=\"sponsored\">essays\/personal statements<\/a> which equals\u2026a whole lot of writing. how can you draft so many essays and still maintain a fresh and original voice in each?<\/p>\n<p>did you know that you can probably adapt one essay from a given application to another essay on another application?<\/p>\n<p>you can, and you should \u2013 that is, if you follow the guidelines below to ensure that you\u2019re not simply cutting and pasting (no matter how similar the questions appear to be) and that you\u2019re not sloppy about it.<\/p>\n<p>a few helpful tips:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><b>1. give each essay a unique theme and focus on different experiences:<\/b> if you present two essays on the same experience in a single application, you\u2019ll probably end up with duplicate copy, and at least one of the essays will be boring. within a single application, you want to present <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2012\/08\/01\/7-signs-an-experience-belongs-in-your-application-essay\/\" rel=\"sponsored\">varied experiences<\/a>, and keep repetition as close to zero as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><b>2. chart yourself:<\/b> if you have multiple essays\/personal statements to manage, consider making a chart and attributing certain experiences, accomplishments, and skills to certain questions so you don\u2019t end up using the same experience, accomplishment, or skill for more than one question at a given school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><b>3. portray your multi-dimensional self:<\/b> while composing multiple essays, keep in mind the different layers and textures of your personality. try to present these layers in your essays so the adcoms receive a rich, multi-dimensional portrait of you as a human being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><b>4. double check your name dropping: <\/b>check carefully (and then check again) to make sure that you don\u2019t forget to change an occurrence of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2013\/10\/23\/tips-for-completing-your-2014-columbia-supplement-to-the-common-application\/\" rel=\"sponsored\">columbia<\/a>\u201d to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2013\/10\/27\/2014-tips-for-completing-your-cornell-supplement-to-the-common-application\/\" rel=\"sponsored\">cornell<\/a>\u201d when you adapt your essay.<\/p>\n<p><em>this article was originally published on the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2013\/11\/05\/resourcesful-essay-recycling\/\" rel=\"sponsored\"><i>accepted admissions blog<\/i><\/a><em>.<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tired from writing endless personal statements? check out accepted\u2019s top tips for thoughtfully recycling and adapting your admissions essays. you\u2019re applying to six different schools and each one requires 2-7 essays\/personal statements which equals\u2026a whole lot of writing. how can you draft so many essays and still maintain a fresh and original voice in each? 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