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So you're not the best at putting your qualifications, accomplishments and dreams into real, genuine, human words. That's fine.
Here's the thing — AI isn't the best at it either.
See that long dash right there? It's used incorrectly. And it's one of many obvious and not-so-obvious telltale signs of reliance on ChatGPT that silently disqualify thousands of Ivy League- and Top 50 College applicants every year.
AI won't tell you that. What else won't it tell you about as you're trying to get accepted to your top college choices?
Take college essay advice from a human, Ivy League English major who has polished the writing of many college and graduate school applicants. Someone who's been using the em dash unironically—and correctly—for decades (shout out to Alt+0151).
It Starts With A Read
Suppose you came across someone with the power to make your college dreams come true.
You'd like for them to read a couple hundred words about you, right? To get what you're all about in a few, hopefully compelling paragraphs?
Great!
How about you read first?
About Me
A Story
Just weeks before learning where I would go to college, the head coach of one Ivy League's Track & Field program called me. They told me their staff had been passing around my essay because they were so impressed with what I'd written.
I didn't know what to make of this until years after graduating from a different college. What impressed them? Which essay even was it?
What did this say about me?
It wasn't until years later, after acceptance to the Honors English Program at Harvard and as a Staff Editor for its newspaper (the Crimson), that I understood this phone call.
See, while my qualifications may have been impressive, thousands of applicants had better ones.
As I continued to use my passion for writing and editing to earn various accolades—a perfect 6.0 score on the computer-graded GMAT essay, the role of "Assistant Professor of Managerial Writing" at Duke's Fuqua School of Business—it became clear what this said.
"Tekky can really write a story."
So, amidst the corporate stints my education has afforded me, I founded a copywriting and copyediting consultancy where I have advised and shaped the story writing of many founders, authors, and university applicants.
Yes, I received hundreds of five-star reviews and testimonials, and for a few years made a living editing and advising people's writing.
But this "About Me" is actually about you.
How you receive it. How this all makes you feel about your own story writing. What action this compels you to take. Why you would accept me as your college essay advisor.
The essays and applications that got me accepted to all eight colleges I applied to were, naturally, about me.
And your application will be about you, naturally. I help with how to have the things "about you"—your successes, your interests, your ambitions, etc.—jump off the page and resonate deeply with admissions offices.
About me? No. What about you? Literally...what about you is going to impress admissions officers across the country? And how do you want your story to be read?
Your Perfect Story
See, no SAT scores. No GPA. No AP courses.
These are vital for your application, but it's your stories that make people want to know you. Want to engage with you.
If getting into the top schools were just as easy as having a perfect 1600 SAT score and a 4.0 GPA, then 450 such "perfect" applicants to the Class of 2004 of Harvard wouldn't have been rejected.
What's the perfect story? Yours. Told effectively, like a compelling, awesome, ambitious person who people can't wait to engage with further.
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