Eric Karlan
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286 appearances
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first heard May 2019
last heard May 2019
Eric Karlan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This isn't as much of an essay prompt necessarily, but I always think this one's fun.
It just says, give us your top 10 list.
But the prompts can range from asking about a student's intellectual interest to a community they belong to and their role within it to their personal diversity and how they've embraced that.
So there's really a wide range of prompts out there.
But no matter what the prompt is, Debbie, I have students brainstorm the same way for all the questions because really,
These questions are all opportunities and invitations for a student to share their story, which is why when I'm brainstorming with students, I only ask them one question, which is, what do I need to know about you?
And that's a very overwhelming and intentionally broad question.
But I don't want students only thinking through the lens of what a prompt may be asking, because I think that limits the stories that they share and open up to tell.
When you ask, what do I need to know about you?
As big of a question as that is, it really invites a cool conversation where students can talk about things from their resume, like activities and accomplishments and awards and another
place, which I always say there's two places ideas come from, your resume and your eulogy.
And I don't mean to sound morbid in saying that, but when we think about what would be on a eulogy that wouldn't be on a resume, it would be a lot of the intangibles like important or meaningful moments and stories in a student's life, obstacles that they've overcome, quirks, interests, curiosities, traditions that they have.
And when I'm working with a student, I want to know all of that going into the process before they ever start drafting an essay so that we can talk, you know, really evaluate and think about what stories they feel are most important to share.
Sure.
So working backwards, I always tell students and families, there's really three areas on the application that you have control over where you can really share your student's story beyond grades and an academic transcript and standardized test scores.
So one of those ways that you can share your voice is obviously the application essays, which we were just talking about.
In fact, that's really the one opportunity that students have to share their personal voice on the application.
Another way that they can do this is teacher and guidance counselor recommendations, which some parents and students always find a little funny that I say that you, quote unquote, have control over this.
But you really kind of do because it's on the student to develop and foster a
a relationship with their teachers and with a guidance counselor.
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