Your grades and extracurricular activities are good, teachers gave you stellar references, but what about the other 10,000 applicants with similar credentials?
A carefully crafted university application essay can tip the balance in your favor if you have somehow landed yourself in the admissions officer’s ‘maybe’ pile. Here’s what you shouldn’t do with your application essay if you want your application to move closer to the ‘definite yes’ pile rather than the recycling bin.
1) Exaggerate, exaggerate and exaggerate
Did you used to play a sport for your country or your county? It’s only a letter’s difference after all, but "oops, I made a typo" is not going to cut it if you get found out. By all means, be proud of your achievements and talk about your experiences openly, but if you feel the need to stray from the absolute truth, then don’t blame me if admissions officers use a little invention called Google to verify any ‘reality embellishments’, otherwise known as lies.
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