originality Archives | IvyBoost Education College Admissions Counseling Boosts Your Opportunities for Top Selective Colleges Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:24:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://site.ivyboost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cropped-ivyboost-favicon-32x32.png originality Archives | IvyBoost Education 32 32 How to be the Real You in Writing https://site.ivyboost.com/how-to-be-the-real-you-in-writing/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:24:16 +0000 https://site.ivyboost.com/?p=18313 by Kathleen M. As Oscar Wilde famously quipped, “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”  If only this advice were easy to follow when you are writing a personal essay to be included in your college admission portfolio.  But it is necessary because the college of your dreams wants an authentic and honest sense of who you are. Authentic you.  When you write and add in words you don’t fully

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]]> How to Be Original When Writing Personal Essays https://site.ivyboost.com/how-to-be-original-when-writing-personal-essays/ Sat, 06 Jan 2024 19:06:58 +0000 https://site.ivyboost.com/?p=17598 by Drew C. Everyone knows that a good personal essay is original. It’s one of the laws of the universe for English teachers and counselors and college admissions committees, and you’ve probably heard it a thousand times. But what does it actually mean to be original? And why does it matter? In one sense, being original means “not being a plagiarist”—i.e., submitting your own work instead of the work of

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