Writing an essay about yourself can be a unique opportunity to share your story and highlight what makes you you. Whether for college applications, scholarships, or a class assignment, this essay ...

A personal essay should center on you. But if most of your essay is about yourself and your goals, it may sound egotistical. So, try to weave in a story about collaboration.

1. At least once in any essay, make fun of yourself. It's called self-deprecation. It should be (but is not) taught in every essay-writing and speechmaking class.

August is here and for high school seniors, with it comes angst about the college admission essay. This rite of passage is the perfectionist's nemesis, but with these tips, it need not be so.

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