How to Start Writing Your Common App Essay

College Essay Tips: Episode 1!
In this video, I go over what to do before you start writing your common app essay for college! I cover how to write your common app essay and tips to get started thinking about ideas, which is the most important component of an essay.

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[drewlucy]

"I could roll a joi-I could roll a bAlL oF cRumBs" lmao I love this, thank you so much for being so open about the whole college process :)

[ashleyxiao]

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[junno]

This guy is someone I would REALLY want to be friends with. Not because he got into these elite school, but because he seems SO chill and is willing to go out of his way to help people.

[vmqnrnv]

will be a senior in highschool august and am currently stressed abt the essays..this helped sooo much

[camilavalladares]

1. Find an idea
2. Brainstorming aka: timeline of your life & what things changed you and made you who you are.
DON'T search for petty
If you're going to talk about your difficulties talk HOW you overcame them. They want to see your resilience and how you developed as a person.
Don't talk way too much about sports, hobby, mission trip, bad parents, etc. It's overdone
3. Make your essay interesting, something people wants to read
Talk about yourself, like a mini chapter of you and put it all together.
4. Don't waste your word count!
5. Write over the word limit and start cutting it down about stuff that's not important. (Go approx. 100 words over your word count to narrow it down later)

[marystretcher]

" Start early, start now..." I haven't started and it's due today, lmao.

[neeza]

don't be shy read your eraser essay :)

[hurleyhaney]

I watched your essay video when it came out months ago and when I sat down and started writing mine yours was what really inspired me to write mine and honestly I wouldn’t have thought of my prompt without inspiration from you so thank you

[kennykk]

I’m done with my essay but I still watched the full video. This is some fire content bro, a lot of students will benefit from your tips. Also post some more if you can you’re hella entertaining

[emmaclarksonperez]

bruh i’ve been watching videos of people reading their essays & people giving suggestions for a week & i couldn’t think of topics to write about. it took me halfway through your video to think of a good topic so thank you, you are elite.

[telmabraz]

Just wanna say that your video help me sooo much. I’m actually in my last year of high school in France and I wasn’t hopping a lot about this kind of videos. BUT in fact after watching you video all the ideas came to me(lmao) and actually I’m writing my essay for my (maybe) futur university 🎓🤭! So THANK YOU SO MUCH ;)!!

[omarestevez]

wow I cannot tell you how much this helped me with my essay I am far from an Ivy league applicant with a terrible gpa and a semi decent sat score really appreciate you taking the time to make this video!

[kittywilliams]

I’m on my third video from you right now, and I’ve been watching because of the content (I’m curious; though I’m going into 9th grade), but mostly because of your personality. You are so funny and the way you edit your face in videos makes me laugh so much. I wish we were the same age because I would definitely want to be friends in school with you lmaoooo

[sophiasuerth]

I’ve watched a lot of these videos & this is the best I’ve seen so far. Very helpful!

[pinponpin]

Thank u so much there is nobody who broke down these details like u

[platosfavoritestudent]

Thank you so much for this. This video does a great job of not brushing over the obvious and saying "great now write the essay" like no shit i need to write about something that will make me stand out, but this video gives leads on HOW you can start (like narrow down a few events that changed your life). 10/10

[TeemoK]

This actually helped a lot it was so genuine

[nbreezii]

"Start early, plan years ahead"
my essay is due in about 19 hours and I just now titled it and thought of a topic

[seymakilic]

Such a nice and chill guy! Thank you for your videos :)

[hiyashah]

this was insanely helpful! thank you so much! please make more essay related videosss