Eric Karlan
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286 appearances
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first heard May 2019
last heard May 2019
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And I think if you communicate that effectively, I do think that the testing that College Board and ACT are reasonable and understanding, and they get it because they've worked with plenty of homeschool students and families over the years.
So they understand the differences in those cases.
Absolutely.
So I think especially for differently wired students, and quite frankly, anyone who doesn't love writing and writing about themselves, one piece of assurance that I always give to students and families heading into this process is
is that while good writing is a foundational piece of a good college essay, the best essays aren't the ones that are the best written or read like Shakespeare wrote them, right?
The best essays are the ones that are the most personal.
And what's nice about the college application essays is this isn't your five, you know, quote unquote, five paragraph standardized essay from school.
students are liberated to share their personal voice in their own style.
There's no format that they need to accommodate.
So to take a lot of the pressure and stress away from initially, you know, especially that first draft, which is very scary for anyone when you're looking at that blank sheet of paper, that blank template on your computer screen, our advice is to just start writing.
not worry about the word limits.
Just get your thoughts and ideas on paper.
Sometimes that can be full sentences that are grammatically correct, but in those initial one or two drafts, we joke with students all the time, don't worry about grammar, don't worry about spelling.
The idea here is to get your thoughts and your stories and emotions onto the page so we can look at them and
And then that's what revisions are for.
Then honing that story down and really making sure we do capture the student's voice in the required word limit space.
But I think that a lot of students do come into this thinking, oh, this is another five paragraph essay for English class where there's that rubric where I need a thesis statement.
And it's not true.
You really are liberated and unbound to express your voice.
and telling your personal story.
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