Starting College Essays

Starting college essays with a bang is fundamentally important in the highly selective college admissions process.

Your college essays are a pivotal component of your application. They shed insight on who you are and what you’re all about. They make you more than just a student with perfect grades and near-perfect SAT scores. They make you human. And while every single word in your college essay matters (you’d be amazed how even one word can turn off a college admissions counselor if that college admissions counselor happens to interpret the word as, say, arrogant), do you know what the single most important part of your college essay is? If we had to choose, it is most certainly the introduction.

With a boring introduction, you’ll put a college admissions counselor right to sleep. You need to grab that college admissions counselor by the shoulders right away and let them know that you’re different, that this college essay isn’t going to be like the previous two hundred. This college essay is going to be different. It’s going to intrigue them. It’s going to maybe even change their emotions. Wouldn’t that be incredible! So, yes, starting college essays with a bang is fundamentally important!

But starting college essays with a bang is easier said than done for most college applicants. Most college applicants just don’t know how to do this. They don’t know what’s compelling. They don’t know how to change peoples’ emotions through their writing. They haven’t honed their craft enough to understand just how to do that. At Ivy Coach, this is often where we come in. We help students start their essays with a bang. We help them hone their writing so that their admissions essays are ones college admissions counselors will most certainly remember.