QUICK STUDY — How Students Can Write a Winning University Application Essay

Barbara Castleton, M.A.
Age of Awareness
Published in
6 min readJun 11, 2021

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Pandemic or not, high school grads and grad-school hopefuls are still hoping to attend the college of their choice, and while SAT and GRE scores are being debated as predictors of success, the college/university essay still reigns supreme. Why? Because, for admissions officers, the Application Essay or Insight Questions reveal meaningful information about the applicant and offers hints about what that person might add to the college or university. There is no perfect formula for creating the essay, but critical elements stand…

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Barbara Castleton, M.A.
Age of Awareness

Writer, teacher, seasonal ex-pat— my life is both an intentional and serendipitous circumstance. Mottos — “Buy the ticket, and go!” “Offer help where you can.”