How to Write a Great Engineering / "Why STEM?" Essay for College Applications
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- In this video I’ll walk you through:
- 3 cliches to avoid in your Engineering/STEM personal statement
- 3 things you might do instead
- A sample essay that I loved from a former student I worked with who was accepted at a highly selective college and tips you can learn if you’re writing a STEM essay
📍 Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Three cliches to avoid in your STEM/engineering essay
01:13 Three ideas for things you might do instead
01:38 STEM/Engineering example essay + analysis
07:35 Final thoughts
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Love these videos, especially for this admission cycle (the quality definitely keeps getting better)! I caught one of the clichés in my own "Why Major?" essay (I'm applying as an electrical engineering major) so this definitely helped.
Thanks for watching!
There's so much I want to write about in my life. I have trouble narrowing it down.
This is a good problem to have. Check out the brainstorming playlist on my channel and see if anything you come up with is particularly elastic/generative.
Hey! Great Video! I just wanted to clarify one thing. If I want to talk about the various communities I am part of (community essay) and I talk about some of my work experience with my dad, is it still a good idea to include it in my extra curricular/jobs section of the application?
Yep, you could still include this in your Activities List!
@@Collegeessayguy thank you so much! I really wanted to talk about the community aspect through the work I was doing with my dad and am glad that this confusion has been taken care of! Keep up the great work sir!
Thanks! Hope everything goes well :)
Hey 👋👋👋👋👋 Love your videos and everything you do, I mean you've been a GREEEAATTTT help to my personal statement and THANK YOU♥️
But what about supplemental essays? Why don't you make videos on those? Like the Harvard supplemental essay questions. Like don't you think students (like me) will have just as much issues to answering the prompt that says "how will the life experience that shaped who you are today enable you to contribute to Harvard," as they have with their personal statements
Thanks for asking! We have over 75 guides for individual schools' supplemental essays. You can browse the guides for free here: www.collegeessayguy.com/supplemental-essays
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Thanks for the video.
Is there a link to the essay + analysis blog?
The "Cheers" essay + analysis can be found here: www.collegeessayguy.com/blog/personal-statement
Awesome introduction, but honestly I couldn’t see the link between your readings and STEM/engineering essays.
Thanks for watching! These essay examples were written by our past students who applied to STEM/Engineering programs. Just because you're applying as a STEM student doesn't mean your essays have to drip with STEM verbiage/topics. Admissions readers for those programs still want to see that you're a well rounded, multidimensional student, which these essays signify well. Hope this helps!
What if the person reviewing the essay isn't quite familiar with my lensing device. In this case what if the reviewer doesn't know cheers?
Either way--it's still pretty clear the student knows a ton about the thing they're mentioning and is connecting to it in an interesting way. This shines through the content regardless of the reader's familiarity with said thing.
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I really love your videos especially since im applying in thus cycle. I would be very grateful if you could review my personal common app essay for me. I hope you can help me out Sir
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Hey 👋👋👋👋👋 Love your videos and everything you do, I mean you've been a GREEEAATTTT help to my personal statement and THANK YOU♥️
But what about supplemental essays? Why don't you make videos on those? Like the Harvard supplemental essay questions. Like don't you think students (like me) will have just as much issues to answering the prompt that says "how will the life experience that shaped who you are today enable you to contribute to Harvard," as they have with their personal statements
Try these on: www.collegeessayguy.com/supplemental-essays
Part of why I don't do videos is those prompts change a lot each year... and it's easier to update blogs. :)