College Entrance Essay

[musicman_17082]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 1:59am

What was the subject of your essay(s), where did you apply, and where did you get in?

While we're at it... how about ur SAT/ACT scores?

Just getting ready for the application process this fall and I enjoy reading what worked (and didn't work) for other people!

[BroadwayBaby21]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 11:19am

The subject of my essay was how theatre and the people associated wih my theatre experiences helped me become the person I am today. I talked about my first time seeing a broadway show, my first time being on stage in my 5th grade production of Annie, and then the 4 years I spent with a community theatre when I was a teen and how the directors really helped guide me.

And it worked! I got in Early Decision at my first choice school of Gettysburg College.

My SAT score was 1860: 640 math, 620 verbal, 600 writing. I didn't take the ACT so I wouldn't know my score. lol

GL on your applications, and they really aren't as scary as they seem. :)

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 2:30pm

I wrote my essay about how I stack cups really quickly (Sport Stacking) in my spare time.

As long as you stay on top of things, the application process really isn't too bad. Don't go nuts and have hundreds of people read your essay though, only the people you truly trust. I had plenty of people (we had to pass our essays around our English class) tell me that my essay was too sophomoric, as they all wrote about their hundreds of accomplishments and awards and such.

My SAT scores were too embarrassing to post here.

I am going to New York University

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 5:04pm

I wrote about how singing and performing has changed my life.
My SAT score was a 2200 (v-690, m-740, w-770).
The most selective schools I got into were Brandeis, Tufts, and SUNY Binghamton. I'm going to Brandeis.
My advice is to write your essays NOW. Write every essay on the common app, and others that you think you may need. If you are planning on attending a conservatory, find your audition material ASAP, so you can do it in your sleep. Limit yourself to a certain number of colleges to apply to, so you can focus on getting yourself into those specific schools. Make sure you know which schools you are applying to by the end of September. Good luck! If you have any specific questions, feel free to post or PM.

[lovelyspotlight]

Posted: 7/23/07 at 5:20pm

Hmm, darling, I really want to see your sport-stacking...I almost forgot about that talent of yours...I might just stick it in our song somewhere! ; )

Also, I kind of forget what each of my essays were about, if that says anything about how much I devoted to each one. I definitely didn't spend a long time (like, weeks and weeks) on any one essay. The common app essay I chose was the one about a life experience which has changed me and the things I do, etc. I wrote about the back surgery that I had summer before 7th grade and how it made me a stronger person while at the same time nudging me into theatre.

For the specific Northwestern (where I'll be attending) essays, I said that I would like Ariel from The Little Mermaid to be my roommate, that I'd like jazz shoes, a protractor, and some other things which I can't remember to surround me in a painting, and that the campus was gorgeous and the academics rigorous. Those were three different "essays"...I didn't somehow combine those all into one cohesive essay.

At any rate, as I said, I got into Northwestern. So I did something right.

OH! When I wrote my essay for my BFA Musical Theatre audition at University of Miami, I apparently caught the theatre director's attention, for at the audition at the Chicago Unifieds, he talked about the exercise I mentioned and said he might even consider using it in a class setting. The essay prompt was to write about an artistic experience. I tied this theatre exercise into something like "the art of human connection" or some other somewhat ridiculous name. I got into UMiami's BFA program, and I think it was partially (or largely) because of that.

Right, so I don't think I made much sense with a lot of that...but MAYBE!

[Edit: Oops, forgot about SAT scores! V: 760, M: 760, W: 730, so 2250 or 1520.] Updated On: 7/23/07 at 05:20 PM

[Taryn]

Posted: 7/24/07 at 5:22pm

I wrote my essay on how discovering theatre in high school made me grow and mature as a person. It was a really kick-ass essay, and three years later I used it as a writing sample.

SATs...I think I got a...1250? Wow, I can't even remember. (I'm a junior in college now.) This is before they revamped the SATs and added the writing section. I kicked ass in verbal.