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The Third Edition of the popular book, Concise Advice: Jump-Starting Your College Admissions Essays, remains a great resource for students writing college essays. It has been expanded and now includes actual successful student essays. This book has an approach that makes so much sense that were astonished that no one else has suggested it before. Weve heard over and over that a college essay must show, not tell when giving a story. The ultimate model of showing is a movie script. And Concise Advice demonstrates why movie scripts work in getting you emotionally involved in a story and a main character. Most screenplays have a structure which is similar no matter whether the movie is an action thriller or a romantic comedy. And that structure, along with the story wrapped around it, is what draws an audience in. This book talks about the basic components of a screenplay and shows the applicability to college admissions essays. In an essay, the main character is the applicant, and the goal is to write an essay that is memorable and powerful.
Examples are built in a series of steps so a student can see exactly how the essays come about, from thoughts to topics to starting paragraphs to complete polished essays. The way Concise Advice lays out the steps and the process makes it seem like writing a good essay is almost effortless.
The book is indeed concise. It wastes no time in getting right to the point of providing help. Pity the poor students trying to write essays - they are inundated with advice. Where do they start? We think this book is the answer to that question.
Concise Advice also takes many common application prompts and shows some clever tricks for approaching these. The core of the advice seems to be to not even look at the prompts, but to spend your time writing a good personal statement using the techniques in the book, then adapt that same essay to a wide variety of prompts. Some of the advice is counterintuitive. For example, if a student is faced with the prompt: Give us an example of a quote which would apply to you and tell us how it applies, Concise Advice suggests a trick: Dont try to think of a quote first and then write an essay around that quote. Take the essay youve already written and Google the word quote with some key words from the essay. In seconds, youll have hundreds of quotes to choose from, all of which apply to that essay.
So, all in all, this is an extremely helpful book, and may make the process of writing an essay a lot easier and less stressful.
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Concise Advice:
Jump-Starting Your College Admissions Essays
THIRD EDITION
Simple techniques for the Common App and other supplemental essays
Robert N. Cronk
Copyright 2014
By Robert N. Cronk
All rights reserved.
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, co ntact
Arasian
870 Yarnell Dr.
Larkspur, CO 80118
jumpstartessays@gmail.com
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Cronk, Robert N.
Concise advice: jump-starting your college
admissions e ssays
3rd ed. / Robert N. Cronk.
Techniques for writing college admissions essays
(including sample e ssays).
ISBN 978-0-9743867-9-9 (ebook)
Education College admissions
Typefaces: Cambria; Courier
Photographs licensed through i stockphoto.com.
Front cover photograph by Ariane B elisle.
Back cover photograph by Paco R omero.
Common App and Common Applic ation are
Registered Trademarks of the Common Application Associ ation. Prompts from the Common App are used with permission.
Published by
ARASIAN
Printed in the United States of America
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Feedback on the First and Second Editions
"If you are currently a high school senior who worries that you've never cured cancer or published a novel and thus will have nothing significant to share at application time, this book is for you." (College Confidential Book Review)
Concise Advice: Jump-Starting Your College Admissions Essays should be your trusty GPS when it comes time to tackle those pesky admissions essays. (College Admissions Strategies)
Great advice about how to tackle the challenging Why This College? essay. (Morrison Educational Consulting)
"It's a fabulous book with con cise, dead-on pointed advice." (Organizer, International Student Competitions)
"The book is very impressive. I loved the movie analogy and the way a plan was clearly outlined with very specific ways to write the essays. It was easy to follow and there were good exa mples." (Parent)
"Concise Advice provides a step-by-step process to help [students] overcome writer's block and craft an entertaining and compelling personal stat ement." (Amazon Customer Review)
"The book helped [my son] get started writing in a non-threatening manner. It then helped him to come up with methods to write interesting papers by using simple straight-forward strat egies. My son loved the way the book related writing to movies." (Amazon Customer Review)
"Love the film connection as that makes this user-friendly and inviting. Let's face it, the audience is ove rwhelmed with books and handouts and packets and more than they will read. This might do it!" (Teacher)
Robert Cronk has something different to say. He advises students to think about their essay as a screenplay... a story by which the reader will get to know the main character. And that main character is you. (Charlotte Observer)
"Robert Cronk's recently published book, Concise Advice: Jump-Starting Your College Admi ssions Essays, suggests a clever cinematic model for 'showing' and not 'telling' your story." (Examiner.com)
Concise Advice: Jump-Starting Your College Admissions Essays offers some excellent tips on how to craft an imaginative essay from the fabric of ordinary lives. (Senior Advisor, College Confidential)
It's a wonderful framework to get started." (Student)
"I wish we had this book when my own children were applying to co lleges." (Parent)
"I'll be recommending your tec hniques to my students. Thanks." (Teacher)
"Anyone creating application essays will find that this book will reduce their stress levels dramatically." (Amazon Cu stomer Review)
"My daughter was feeling ove rwhelmed by the multitude of essays and free response questions that were required on the Common Application and the individual supplements. This book not only helps students get prepared to write in a direct and simple manner, the step by step process helps them create unique and memorable essays that will stand out during the admission cycle." (Amazon Customer Review)
"Thanks for your advice. It helped me so much in writing my essay."
(Student)
Photo by Wes Cronk
This book remains dedicated to Dusty, a rescue from a puppy mill who, in her too-few years of freedom, spotted moose in Alaska, kayaked the Colorado River, climbed mountains, and had more adventures than most people will have in their lifetimes. In November 2013 her ashes were carried to Mt. Everest Base Camp, her ultimate adventure.
My heartfelt thanks to Bevin Baughn, Zach Ma dden, Caroline Moore, Peter Yoder, and other students (who wished to remain anonymous) for graciously allowing me to use their essays in this book.
Table of Contents
Brain Freeze
Show, Dont Tell
Why Do Colleges Want to Torture You?
Secret Recipe for Screenplays
Your Life As a Movie
Writing an Essay: The Essentials
The Evolution of an Essay: The Cold Open
The Evolution of an Essay: Finishing It Before Its Written!
The Evolution of an Essay: The In-Between
A Musical Score for Your Essay?
Do You Need a Unique Topic?
The Common App: Now You Can Peek
The Easy Ones: Youre Done!
Trick or Cheat: The Ones That Look Hard But Are Actually Easy
The More Difficult Ones: A Few Strategies
Why This School?
Why This Major?
Beware of Advice
Wrapping It All Up
Student Essays That Worked
Chapter 1
T he exact moment when severe stress creeps into the college admissions process is when the applicant first reads the prompts for the personal statement, the essay which needs to be written to answer one of the questions being presented.
Imag ine staring at this:
Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or i nformal, which marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
Or this:
A range of academic interests, personal perspe ctives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
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