🔴Draft Crisis
Result guide: Draft Crisis
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WHAT THIS MEANS
This result usually means your essay process hasn't really started yet: no settled topic, draft or feedback. That's common, and there is still time, but essays take more revision cycles than most students expect, so starting soon matters.
WHY THIS MATTERS
The Common App personal statement goes to every Common App school you apply to, and selective schools often use essays to understand applicants with similar records. A rushed essay often reads as one.
WHAT STRONG APPLICANTS DO DIFFERENTLY
- —They commit to a topic well before their first deadline, not because the essay takes that long to write, but because distance and revision cycles take time.
- —They treat the essay as a chance to show what the transcript can't: what a reader should know about them that no other part of the application shows.
- —They get specific feedback from a reader they trust, such as a counselor, teacher or mentor, on what the essay shows about them.
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