“The essay is read as part of a file, and it has to be about this person’s experience,” said Reider, who now works as the director of college counseling at San Francisco University High School. “The essay, disembodied from everything else, cannot stand on itself.”
Essay examples found on the internet and in books on the subject, Reider said, are often perfectly structured and well written, but also “gimmicky and clever, rather than profound.”
“A good essay is found by digging into yourself and finding what there is in you that’s different and interesting and worth telling,” he said. “A really good essay has to be unusual in some way.”
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