Study abroad application write too good to be questioned?

Application for undergraduate admission to the United States, except for some very natural rigid conditions, such as high school grades, TOEFL test scores, a request is to write an essay, the college application essay. This essay and TOEFL/SAT writing section differ?

Perspective 1: write too easily questioned

First of all to clear the United States the University application process, the college application essay's most important goal is to let the Admissions Committee deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the situation of the applicant. This essay content should not be an easy introduction to the background of students or school-machinery listed, but the emphasis should write thoughts, observations of students and introspection, as well as from the experiences learned.

However, a common problem is that when an applicant's TOEFL/SAT writing section of the score is not high, but the application essay if you write so well, but will let the Admissions Committee questioned? that concern many people, especially students to find others modified essay, more will feel no bottom, students are often confused, I do not know to what extent the essay writing as well. Even it has been suggested that if the TOEFL/SAT writing section of the quite good when writing an application essay also deliberately reduced writing level to increase the credibility of the content.

Foreign students in Undergraduate Admissions Committee read the essay, the admission officer will endorse on students ' materials for a symbol "DDI", meaning that, daddy did it also means that the Admissions Committee considers the application materials are the child's father (or other adults) help. Thus, the credibility of its content is greatly reduced. So if your TOEFL/SAT writing section of the score is not high, in the essay writing process to be careful with words, assuming that the task force students to find an expert to British and American literature, write choreographed a ghost writer, you may sometimes have the opposite effect.

Perspective 2: thoughtful play

But on the other hand, don't have to worry too much. TOEFL/SAT writing section and a United States university undergraduate application essay in terms of content, subject matter, common structures are very different, most of the time the two have not comparable, it is not necessarily linked. TOEFL/SAT writing section more like writing or format fixed writing, request the expression within a very short period of time, the students ' point of view, visit the University in the United States students in learning potential. In fact, in the future to enter college, class a common one-page paper, is the requirement for a short period of time to complete one-page short job, and TOEFL/SAT writing section requirements and format is very similar. Investigation of applications for essay the students after the ego of a grasping ability, which is the so-called self-mastery, this requirement is very high, and is also one of the students ' maturity. In a deep understanding of itself under the premise of the article of write-out nature of words, expressions and variable precision, and depth. This article, to some extent as students learn to work on real-world analysis of a depth. Therefore, the two types of articles in the structural arrangements, echoing, expression select logic; they can also be completely understandable.

Therefore, the above two types of articles have focused on, but also to those who, for various reasons TOEFL/SAT writing section of the play is not good, no satisfactory results another opportunity to make the application essay. This is why I repeatedly stressed that the United States university undergraduate application process essay writing on the importance of the root cause. In fact, the last time I see Chicago Undergraduate Admissions Committee, Deputy Director, Adele Brumfield, she clearly told me at the University of Chicago never see SAT writing section scores, but rather focus on students ' application essay.