Another helpful advice on college essays I like to think of it is, it may be less effective to portray oneself as some perfect shape they have in their head; rather, a better way to think of college admissions is that you are trying to engineer the psychology of the person reading it.
The admissions officer has drawn a psychological boundary between the applicants they are reading, and their admissions team aka their coworkers w whom they are passing notes back and forth
Part of the biggest psychological boundary is that the high school students are writing in a way that sounds like an A+ high school student writing an essay. But when these admissions people are talking to each other or writing notes to each other, they are just writing in simple English and giving reasons for why someone should or shouldn’t be let into the university. They basically translate the high school student’s writing into an argument that is more digestible within the body of the admissions group.
It’s like the high school student essays have this foreign antigen on them
So one way to engineer their psychology is to write the essay in a way that is similar to the notes and reasons they pass to each other, if your essay subliminally sounds like this then when reading your piece they think youre their colleague giving good reasons for why you should be admitted. You have surpassed the immune system.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/disinterested
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersignaling
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