💡 Insights about writing college applications 💡

Our awesome course "Writing College Applications" with our awesome American instructor is in full swing. 🇺🇸

Here are some super-useful brainstorming techniques that will help you find what to write about in your application.

1️⃣ Values
- List your values for 10 minutes.
- Go through and identify 5-7 values you’d really like to share.
- For each of these, come up with 1-2 life experiences you can use to demonstrate these values.

2️⃣ Who are you?
- Take 10 minutes to list nouns/noun phrases to describe you.
- Try to move beyond the obvious options (family relations, nationality, job, etc.).
- Identify the top 3 you want to highlight.
- Identify 3 you’re trying to build up and reflect on how you’re trying to build that in your life.

3️⃣ Timeline
- Create a timeline of the last 3-4 years of your life.
- Include all of the most important/informative events of each year.
- Pull out a few key events and list the values that these events demonstrate.

Once you’ve identified what you would like to highlight, go back and compare what you want to show with what you need to show. Now you're all set to write.

Even though our course is about writing college applications, these techniques are super-useful for many kinds of writing that require self-presentation.

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