Colleges want to accept students who can successfully communicate the depth of their extracurricular involvement over three+ years in high school. Thus, when writing a résumé, students must give a great deal of attention to providing just the right amount of detail, while also ensuring proper placement, wording, formatting, and style throughout in order to put their best foot forward for critical admissions officers.
Equally as important – but more daunting for most students – is the process of brainstorming, drafting, and perfecting multiple college essays. All colleges who ask students to write essays actually have admissions officers who read them, so this is not an area of the application to rush through.
In fact, college essays are the best way for admissions officers to get a three-dimensional understanding of an applicant; therefore, college admissions officers are placing increased importance on essays with each passing year! Juniors have no excuse not to start drafting college essays NOW! This is because most colleges don't change their essay questions from year to year, and for those that do, usually only minor changes occur. Yet, the best college essays take weeks to write – and this is not even counting the time it takes to actually choose a topic about which to write! Don't put off starting your essays today, and make sure you get the support you need draft by draft in order to put together the best possible final product.
Most support that Tactical College Consulting can offer you with your résumés and essays can be accomplished in person or via the Internet. For help writing and editing extracurricular résumés and college essays, call 410-526-2558 or email info@tacticalcc.com.
