院校文书20172018塔夫茨大学补充文书题目解析

In order to avoid this, follow  these rules:

Choose only one aspect of  your life– Whether it’s your family or high school, make sure you only  describe one element. This makes the essay more cohesive and easy-to-follow,  hence allowing that one factor to be more memorable in the admissions  officers’ mind.

Connect your environment  to how it influenced your future self– While your past  environment may be interesting, it is not nearly as interesting as your  future. Avoid describing your environment too much so that you do not have  space to talk about how your present and future actions are a result of your  surroundings’ nurture. The recommended distribution is to use 50-100 words to  introduce your environment, and 150-200 to analyze how it influenced you  today.

Avoid clichés– Another common  pitfall is to use cliché sentiments such as how you have become more mature  because you have seen how hard your parents have worked. Though these  sentiments may be true, admissions officers typically read a lot of essays  centered around these “go-to” topics, and hence writing about them will not  make you stand out. In order to answer this question successfully, the way  you were influenced should be very specific. In other words, make sure the  “I” in your response cannot be replaced with the name of another person and  still makes sense.

Show, Don’t Tell– The goal of  this response is to see whether Tuft’s resources and community will have a  positive impact on your attitude and approach towards work and life. The  admissions officers will also use your analysis of how your chosen experience  has impacted you to judge whether you as a person will learn and take  advantage of Tufts social and academic opportunities. Remember, show, don’t  tell. This means if you are claiming to have become a more self-aware citizen,  mindful of your civic duty, show this by explaining your food-drive  initiative at the local orphanage and your volunteer work with the 2016  presidential election. Illustrating by example is much more effective than  simply stating that you take your civic duty seriously.