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## Why supplemental essays are more important than students realize [00:00] Hello. Hello everybody. This is Coach Art with Eagle. I want to thank you for joining me tonight for my training. Um, and so uh I see that there are a number of people joining which is incredible and amazing. Uh, as you know u for those who are uh the regulars here uh I'm always excited to see the regulars but I'm also excited to see other other people that I haven't seen before as well. Uh so just to give you a little bit of a start here uh introducing myself. I'm coach Art with Eagle. Uh I have been in uh with Eagle for gosh over four years, been in the college admissions space over eight years, was in technology for 30 years. And um my biggest claim to fame and I always say this is my three boys. Um I'm very very proud of them. Uh my oldest graduated from UC Berkeley with a mechanical engineering degree last year. My middle son is pursuing his um nursing degree at um um University of Illinois in Chicago. And my youngest is pursuing his physical therapy degree um at Biola University and also playing college soccer. So, uh, for those parents that are out there, I have, um, I have, uh, been through it three times, been through all the stress and strain and and the worry about making sure your, you know, your kids make it to the right school or so. So, I understand that. And for those students out there, uh, I've, you know, placed hundreds and hundreds of students across the nation, um, in, you know, top 20, top 50, top 100 schools. Okay. But thank you so much for joining. Um uh as you know I am the reaction uh coach and so I always love to see reactions. So first of all uh is uh if you can hear me well if you could do me a favor and give me a thumbs up so that I can see uh that would be amazing. Thank you so much. I see that. Awesome. Uh I appreciate that. Uh again, that's always for me is just um I love to make sure that um that uh you can hear me. Now, the second thing that I would like to do is and I'm going to go ahead and share my screen right now. So, let me go ahead and do that is if you can share my screen, please give me a uh thumbs up again so that I can see and make sure that you could awesome. Okay. All right. Okay. And then lastly, um if uh just so we can test it is if you um again if you could give me a red heart. I what I want you guys to do is whenever you hear something, thank you so much. I see the red hearts. if uh you can give me the red hearts because if you hear something that I've talked about in uh during when I mention it and you love it, give me a. ## What makes supplementals different from personal statements [03:00] red heart because that really gives me the ability to see um things that are relevant and that work for you guys. Okay, so again, thank you so much for joining. I really really appreciate it. Um today we are going to talk about supplemental essays. Okay. Now, I kind of mentioned uh the this um I think it was a couple of weeks ago where I talked about the why college or Y major. And so um expanding a little bit more about um you know writing standout supplemental essays and um you know this is very very relevant right now because um for for many of you uh you know you're probably in the midst of writing your um your essays. So I do want to get a take on on those who are on here. if you could do a favor in the chat, if you can write or type out for me um if you're a parent or a student and what year you are graduating. Okay, if you could do that for me really quickly just in the chat. Just want to make sure the chat's working too, that would be amazing. Oh, okay. I see I see a lot of parents here. Uh and I see a lot of 26ers. So that means this is very relevant for you guys because you are in the midst of writing uh your essays. Okay. So thank you so much for joining and we're going to go ahead and get started here. So really again um as I mentioned we're going to talk about supplemental essays. And so what are we going to talk about. We're going to talk about the approach uh how to approach the most common types. you know, what makes uh supplements uh different from personal statements and really smart ways to efficiently tailor your essays, you know, without burning out, but also also just, you know, how to write them, okay, in general. Okay, so that's that's the that's the key thing that we're going to talk about today. So, let's start off with, you know, what are supplemental essays. Okay. Now, with supplemental essays, supplemental essays are short schoolspecific questions that come in addition to your main common application personal statement. Okay. So, every school asks different ones, but they're all designed to help admissions officers understand how you fit into their particular campus. Okay. So, how does this, you know, help readers uh assess who you are and what you do. So, first of all, there's really kind of three main things um that they're looking for. First of all, fit. So, why they're looking for how do you fit. You know, do you understand their school and how does that fit with, you know, your goals um for your major and your career aspirations. Okay. Secondarily is also. ## Three things colleges look for in every response [06:00] the voice. Can you reflect deeply in fewer words. Can you express yourself concisely and thoughtfully, okay, about again their the specific school and then really uh authenticity. So, are you being real. Are you just saying what you think they want to hear. So, that's really really important because a lot of times too many students write these uh supplemental essays trying to figure out, oh, this is what the reader wants to hear. And really with all your essays, frankly, that's not what you want to do. And I think I've said that many times. It's you want to tell them what you want to tell them. Okay. And really truly coming from uh from from your heart, right. So these are this is really a chance to go beyond the statistics, right. The stats and really show how your goals, your interests, and your personality match the college culture. Okay. their college culture and their campus. So that's why it's really really important that you do well in these supplementals and can make a huge difference um on the decisions of the readers. Okay. So let's talk about the difference between the personal statement and supplements and and the reason why we say personal statements because remember the personal statement is a part of the common application. Okay. And so what is really difference because some people they get confused. So let's kind of break that down. So first of all, there's the personal statement which is uh and then there's the supplemental. So the personal statement is 650 words. Okay, it's 650 words. And so uh the one thing again it is a broad and personal story about you, right. Okay. So it really talks about the big picture. Okay. It also mentions or or pertains to your why, your your your core values. again really personal about you and this applies to all the common application schools. So for example, if you are um if you have registered for the common application, you are going to select a bunch of schools and every single school on that list that you select is going to receive your personal statement. So that's why it's universal. It applies to all of the applications that you are um you are um going to be submitting. Okay. Now, the supplements are different because first of all, they have different word limits. So, they can range between 100 to 300. I've seen actually as low as 50. Um, I've seen something maybe in the 500, but typically it's between 100 and 300 words. Um, it's a very targeted response, a very specific response to uh uh with a specific question. and it really um talks about how you fit with that particular school and it normally is. ## Overview of the three most common prompts [09:00] custom to every school. Okay, so these are extra. Okay, these are extra questions that when you go into the common application and you put in the schools when you start clicking on the particular schools, there will be a section uh a writing section and it will show whether you have um particular supplemental essays that you have to fill out or answer. Okay, some schools don't have any. Some schools just rely on the personal statement. Some schools have maybe one or two. Some school have eight. Okay, it really all depends. Like USC has uh eight, okay, eight supplemental, but some of them are ranging. Like one of them is just uh give us three words that describe you, okay. So that's not so scared that they're just these, you know, so many essays, okay. But your personal statement again is your story. It's your identity, your values, and what shaped you. Your supplementals are your pitch. It's the why this college, why this major, um why you belong, okay, to this particular um or why you should belong to this particular campus. Okay, everybody good with that so far. Can I have a heart here just so that you're keep keeping track with uh what I'm saying. Okay, cool. Excellent. All right, so let's go through the most common types. Okay, the most common types of um supplemental essays and there's really really mainly three of them. So there is the why this college. Okay, why are you applying to our school. Why are we a fit for you and you for us. Okay, so you got to remember it's the it's both ways. It's fit for you. Why do that school fit. And why is it a fit for them. Okay, the second type is community, belonging, diversity. So how do you engage with others. What unique background or perspectives do you. ## What not to do on a Why Us essay [11:00] bring to the school. Okay. So you'll you'll see that a lot either community um belonging diversity. Okay. And then the last one is why this major or why this academic interest. Okay. What sparked your interest in your intended field. How have you explored it. Why do you want to study it here specifically at this school. Okay. So, um those are the the the three types of supplemental essays and we're going to go through each one, okay, so that we can talk about what to do and what not to do for those. So, let's first talk about why this college and I know I've spoken and in depth about this, but I do want to again make sure that you say, you know, what are the things you should do, why should you not. So, let's start with the most common one, which is basically why us, why college. So, couple things that you definitely you don't want to write about. And I and I I say this and then um I I read uh my the you know students I'm helping and they just do this all the time. What not to write, what a beautiful campus it is, um how highly ranked it is, uh what great weather it has. I mean these are things that you definitely don't want to write about because first of all all applicants mention this and secondarily it doesn't really show depth um of research. Okay. It doesn't show the depth that you've taken to really research the schools. Okay. So what do you want to do. What do you want to do about writing to college. First of all, um you want to mention specific programs, uh professors, traditions or so. And I I know I've touched upon this before, okay. Um the key thing here is you want to focus on specific connections. Okay. A club, a program, a tradition, uh or a community that genuinely excites you, okay. The specific connection. And when you're doing this, um you want to show that it matches your goals. Okay. So, when you're writing these, you want to write about, okay, here's my goal. I want to be a microbiologist that um cures, I mean, dermatological um uh ailments. I don't know where I got that from. Okay. But, uh and then you want to now do your research. And I've talked about this before is you want to do your research so that you make sure with the research that you go two, three, four layers deep. You don't want to absolutely go to the front page of their websites and then just go ahead and um say okay this is it. Because that really doesn't show that you've invested any time in researching. Okay. So you see here use the connection web. So again, the clubs, the classes, the culture, the career, you want to connect those in your why college essay. Okay. ## How to use the Core Paragraph method to save time [14:00] Um, so one great tip is to create what's called a core paragraph. Okay. And what I mean by that is a core paragraph about your academic, your extracurricular goals. And then what you're going to do is this core paragraph is what you use for every single school that you're going to answer this question of why college. But what you're going to do is you're going to insert the custom details for each of those schools. Okay. So, you're going to create a core paragraph that says, you know, I'm interested in again microbiology um and I want to specifically do um you know, dermatological ailments that have this. That's your core. Okay. Because you've stated your your your goal in life of that. And then you want to go ahead and research for every school how that that school meets the dermatological ailments um you know goal. Okay. So create this core paragraph, write this core paragraph and then you use that in every single one. So that's a tip for you to one to also um uh save time but also so that it's easier for you and save consistency. Okay. So, it's really important again that you have this goal matching that you're connecting things along the way about you know clubs, classes, culture and career. Okay. Um and then as well as that you want to be very very specific and dive deep okay as deep as you can very specifically as you can uh in the things that the universities and this is when I say research it's not just going on the website but I would do um searches on initiatives um on projects that they've done or you know community projects that they've done. Um now the one thing I will say um is and I can talk about this in the Y major is sometimes students will say about what about professors and you know we're kind of I'm kind of um when it's when we're talking about professors um it's one of those things with respect to professors um I don't necessarily like students to mention about professors and the reason why is because you say oh my gosh the sole reason why I want to go to this school is because of professor Smith and his research on this and I want to take his class and I want to be part of his you know this and that right well what if professor Smith is not there um when you submit your application what if he left then they're going to say well okay well your reason has gone do you still want to be part of this so that's why I caution people about talking about specific professors what I would say is talk about their research research because that research can still continue on but the professor may not be there. Okay. Um okay. So another the other uh let's say the second one is community and belonging. Okay. So this essay type is about inclusion. It's about empathy. It's about contribution. Okay. and colleges, they really want to know how do you engage with people from different backgrounds. What do you bring to your communities. Okay, so they're really ask for how do you show up in a community. What perspectives do you bring. Okay, and so um you know, a strong essay, a community and belonging essay really tells a story. It's not just a statement. Okay. So, um you can see here what you're going to write about is a a specific example of a time you contributed to or benefited from a community. Okay. And the type of things you're going to write about is a reflection on values like empathy, inclusion, as I mentioned, and leadership. You know, you want to connect to how you'll engage on the colleg's campus itself. And a lot of. ## Examples for the Community and Belonging essay [18:00] times what you can do there is really point out about the type of diversity that's there or the type of um um organizations or clubs um or initiatives that they've really um uh keyed on. Okay. So couple things uh here's a framework. So first of all describe a community you value or contribute to. Okay. So that's the first part. And then secondly reflect on how that experience shaped your perspective. And then third, connect that experience to how you'll engage on campus. Okay, so again repeat talk about what community you value. Then talk about exper an experience that really shaped your perspective and then lastly uh connect those right and how particularly the camp is going to help you reconnect to that particular experience. Okay. So um love to find out again put if you can put in the chat what is one community that you are part of that's shaped you who you are. So if you can drop in the chat I'd love to see what is one community out there that you you know that you really uh has shaped you. If you could just put that in the chat I love it. Soccer team. Okay that's a good one. Musical theater. Love that one. Okay. Um any others. Any others. musical orchestra. Okay, great. So, these are these are communities. Absolutely. These are communities. And so, those are the kind of things you want to talk about. Okay. All right. Excellent. Thank you for contributing. All right. The last one is um the why this major. Okay. And really, this prompt is your chance to show your intellectual curiosity and your journey of exploration. Okay. So, when we're looking at this, it's really what do they want to see. Okay. Curiosity and experience. Um, a, you know, you want to see a through line of exploration, meaning a clear path of of explanation, a clear reasoning for pursuing uh, this particular field. That's what they want to see, right. And so really, when you're structuring uh, this type of essay, you want to structure this way. So, first of all, what are your goals for your future aspiration. What drives you for your this career for your career. Because what you want to show them is what are you aspiring to. Okay. And then secondarily is what have you done to meet that goal. So what are some experiences. What are some things that you have done um that really um you know uh has reached this goal and then why specifically does the college that you're applying to how does that meet your major's goal. Okay. So now you're again every all of these are about connections right about the fit and so you want to tell them hey this is what I aspire to and here is how the specific major is going to help me with that. ## Building a compelling Why Major essay [21:00] goal. Okay. Now the one thing that I do one tip that I want to make sure that you that um that we mention here is do not list out just a series of courses you've taken. Okay. That is not what we want to do. We want to focus on the academic journey itself, the growth that you came out of it. So maybe you had an academic experience, okay. Or or a real or or a real life experience that allowed you. So for example, if you say you know your aspirations is you want to go uh become a a specifically a cardiothoracic doctor and the reason why is because um one of your friends got into an accident and he had specifically cardiothoracic injuries and you were there when that happened and you saw firsthand how it affected him and um and you saw how much the medical doctor helped you helped him, you know, cure that and you started exploring and looking at this this and you found that how amazing it was of how that how the body worked and everything else. And so that's where you know you started exploring and then this car this particular college uh specializes in cardiothoracic you know um uh medicine or something like see so this is how you put that together right but again you want to do it it's not just like oh well this is a great program it's got no you want to tie it in and connect it to what your future aspirations are and what your career is. Okay everybody get that. If you can give me a heart, that'd be great to understand. And you can see there's kind of a consistency there with respect to um, you know, with respect to writing these. Okay. And it really is it's the connection, right. It's the connection to the campus, right. Okay. All right. So, what are some techniques. Okay. So, what are some techniques in in in writing this. Okay. Okay. Um, so let's let's I'm going to give you some time-saving techniques. Okay. So, let's talk about how to manage all this, you know, again, without losing your mind, without going, you know, and just trying to figure this out. So, first of all, here's some time-saving techniques. First of all, create modular content blocks. And so, what I mean by that is, and this was I talking about before, is write one strong paragraph for each question. meaning the Y college, the Y major, and then the the community belonging diversity. Okay. And then you customize the details for each of the schools. So, so you have one common paragraph for the Y college, one common paragraph for the Y major, and one for the belonging community and diversity. And then you're just filling in the the the the gaps with what specifically the colleges, you know, what the colleges are doing to meet that. Okay, so that's one thing. It's called modular content blocks. It really really helps because then you're not just rewrite. You're not you're going to rewrite. And the secondarily is the key thing is filling it in with details of school because you don't, this is a big no no. You definitely do not want to reuse the exact same, okay, the exact same um essay. Okay. Now, secondarily, um you you know track reused phrases in a spreadsheet. So track which colleges um ask which prompt and then reuse the polished answers that you do wherever possible. Okay. So it's really cool. So if a college says hey you know what um again tell me uh why uh our co our our school of of um I don't know uh school of uh astronomy uh really apply or you know is is um inspiring for you. Well, you want to make sure is that when you have really polished answers, you want. ## Modular content blocks, research vaults, and reuse strategies [25:00] to put that in some type of tracking sheet, some type of tracking spreadsheet or so, so that you have those recorded and then you can pull those particular um polished sentence or answers and you can put them into your essay. So, that's another thing that helps you. So, you have, you know, your modular content blocks and now you have these specific reusable polished answers. Okay. And then third, what I would do is is really create what I call is a is a research vault for each of the colleges. You want to um you know make a dock, okay, or a link. And what you want to link is the specific research that you did on them. So the clubs, the organizations, the centers, the programs, um maybe their core values or their themes. And you want to do this for each um of the schools that you apply to. And this is really important because what you want to be able to if you can start looking at this, you can start seeing there's going to be um commonalities across the way through each of these colleges. And that's where you can say, okay, you know, this college is asking this question. Well, I'm going to look at my modular content blocks. I'm going to look at my reusable phrases. And you can pull those and put them in there. And it will, you know, help you uh save time in creating these particular uh essays because remember these essays are like between 100 and 300. A lot of them are like 100 150. 100 to 150 words is really nothing. It's about two to three sentences. So that's the reason why it's important when you have these reusable polished answers that you're not necessarily wasting your time trying to rewrite every single thing. Okay. So, um, again, utilize your modular blocks to have consistency in content and then customize it to the schools. That's a big tip. And, um, you know, we kind of think about this as a plugand play, right. It's a plugandplay type of process, but you want to make sure you keep it meaningful and you want to keep it intentional. Okay. So, that's some time-saving techniques on how to write um these particular um essays. Okay. All right. So, let's take a look at some common mistakes. Okay. Some common mistakes that we see um with respect to um the these particular essays. Okay. So, let's let's talk about common mistakes. So, here's some common mistakes. First of all, copy and pasting the same answer across colleges. I already mentioned this. Please, please, please do not copy the exact essay that you do for every single school. I've seen students do this. It doesn't work out very well because what happens is the readers have read so many that they can tell when you're just writing a generic type of essay. Now, I. ## The five question final checklist before submitting [28:00] know you might say, "Well, coach, what about the modular stuff?" But still, the modular pieces are just small pieces of that paragraph, but it is the content about the actual schooler. So that really makes this um you know personal and what I mean is a lot of times what I'll see with this copy and pasting is the whole great weather you know uh um you know worldrenown program those kind of things if you so if you write it okay if you write something in there uh and I I kind of say this to my students if you write something in there and it can apply to other schools um sometimes that's not the right thing to write. Okay. Because then that's very generic. Okay. The second thing, too much flattery, not enough depth. So, they already know their school. A lot of these readers are readers that are alumni. They know what their school is all about. When you overflatter them and you're just gushing with this, you know, the school is a man, this and this, you're not giving enough depth of who you are. Remember, these essays have to also focus about who you are. So that's the reason why the whole connection piece is you need to make sure that you state what is your goal on your life in your you know um your aspirations or so and then how does that connect to the school but if you just continually just write about oh it's a great great buildings and the campus and the students and the this and this and this and this know about this already. Okay. And so but they learn nothing about you. They only learn everything about their school which they know already. Okay. Um, another thing is uh and I I a couple things more here is forgetting to reflect. Okay. Forgetting the reflection. Um, just really describing but not in uh instead of you know uh analyzing um and truly truly analyzing what this. ## Common mistakes and how to avoid sounding generic [30:00] is about, what the school is all about and what you you know why you want to go there is a big mistake. Okay. Um, another thing is is mentioning things they already know like rankings. Okay, so as I mentioned, they are constantly always uh when if you're flattering them and you're telling them everything that they know about already, um, that's useless. Okay. Um, another thing that I thought of is that um, don't use generalities. Okay. Um, what I mean by that is like for example, I want to go here because it's prestigious. Well, oh my gosh. Okay, that's what I meant by is just using statements that if you could apply to other schools, you might not want to use it because yeah, every school could be prestigious. Every reader could think that their school is prestigious. Okay, so using that generally the big no no. Okay, so always remember instead of these type of mistakes, always tie things back to you. What your goals are, what your values are, what your interests are, what your identity is. Okay. Um, so I'll ask out there, you know, another another interactive. Um, what is one of these that you think you're most worried about making, meaning one of these mistakes. So, if you can type that in here. Okay. Uh, what what is one of the what is one of the things that you can uh that you would be worried about making a mistake on. Because I've seen them all. Forgetting to Yes, that's too much flattery. Okay, good. Forgetting to reflect. Yes. Yes. Great. Excellent. Love it. That's exactly correct. Mentioning things they already know. Exactly. Too many I'm telling you, thousands and thousands of thousands and thousands and thousands of of of these students are going to write exactly these things. And to tell you the truth, if if um if if this is the first um supplement that they read, meaning the you know, let's say you have three essays um for that one school and they start reading the first one, they're like, "Oh boy." It does put a a kind of a spoiled um you know, uh spoiled nature in their mind. It's like, "Oh gosh, they're going to be talking about the same things." And then, you know, unfortunately, the readers could zone out just because it's like, "Okay, they're just talking about us, right. not about themselves. Okay, so let's talk about um Love it. Everyone said not informed enough about specifics to write about. Okay, good. Love it. This is perfect. Okay, so let's talk about a final checklist. So, what are some things. Okay, what are some things that you want to make sure as a final checklist. Okay, as a final checklist, um when you before before you hit submit, okay, you want to run every supplemental essay through this checklist. Okay, it's really really important. So, here's the checklist. First of all, um did I answer the full prompt clearly. So, this is the key word is full prompt. You want to make sure that you read line by line or word by word the prompt and that you answer everything in that prompt. Okay. Secondarily, is this essay something only I could write. Okay, that's really really important. Is this essay something only I could have written. Okay. Um because that's going to the uniqueness of this, right. Okay. Did I show how I I will contribute and benefit from the college community. Okay. So, did I show did you show how it contributes and th and how you're going to thrive, you know, at that school. Okay, how you going to benefit from it. And is it free of cliches and generalities. Okay, that's one that's another thing. And the last thing, and I know I mentioned this before, is did I reflect and not just describe. Okay, that's really really important. Did I reflect and not just describe. So, if you go through these questions and you answer yes to all of these, your essay is probably on track. Okay. And again, because these essays are so short, 150 words, you know, there really is about, you know, two to three sentences, the then you don't have a lot to write about. Okay. So the key thing is that because you don't have a lot to write about, um it's very important to go through these and this checklist is very easy to get through very fast. Okay. So, um I know this one was a a bit of a short one, but um again um I want to hopefully um put together some questions and later um actually what we're going to do and I think I mentioned this two weeks ago is myself and coach on going to go through a um a working session in which we're going to write a supplemental essay. Okay. So, I'm going to actually go on. We're going to go on to the website of a school. Um, we're going to pick a question. We're going to go on website of a school. We're going to do the research. We're going to pick out certain things and then we're going to actually write write it write write a a a sample uh supplemental essay. So hopefully you can join us for that. Okay. So, uh, if there are any questions, I think there are questions out there. Um, I'm going to go ahead and read them. But, you know, for those who are new to this um training, I just want to put that out there that if you find this stuff really helpful for you and you want to talk to us about possibly doing just a a free assessment, um go ahead and type B uh which again to this number 949775865. again, B949-7750865 for your free 15-minute assessment u with one of our college advisors. Okay, so with that said, I'm going to go and I am going to look and um let's see here. Look at the questions here. Hold on. Um looking and seeing here. All right. Okay. So, uh the first question is here. If MIT isn't on the common app, do they have an equivalent to the main 60 650word um essays. So they don't uh MIT is not on the common app. MIT is actually they have their own okay they have their own particular um uh application and they have a series of really short answer essay questions um which really serves as the personal statement. So you kind of you know link them together. Um so um that's that's one thing they don't really have a 60 650. Is it bad to mention a family member who went to the school for the Y. Um if it especially if it was a big influence on you. Um so okay this is the thing because you know the question was is it bad to mention a family member who went to the school for the why us essay. The only thing that I don't like about that one is is because a lot of times students have a hard time of not um having the essay be all about that person. Okay. And they go they they actually um don't talk about themselves enough. They talk about the person. And so that's where I get a little bit I really would have to read it. But it's, you know, because then if you only have 150 words, how much can you talk about that person and talk about you. Because when you say, "Oh, well, this person was influential." The thing is, what I'd rather you be talking about is really focusing on, you know, um what your goal in is goal is in life and then why you want to why that school is going to help you. I get that that person may be influential and maybe you want to go to that school because of them but you know it is more important that they learn about you and more important about they learn about your your goal in life rather than um that it's just about this person you see what I mean because every person is different they have their own experiences who knows because that person went there who knows that you might not like it there so that's the one thing okay um I asked because one of the schools my student is interested was very meaningful to our Oh, they gave an international scholarship that allowed his grandpa. Oh, great. A reason. Okay. Yeah. And so again, um the person that Fry that they talking about how the uh it was very meaningful they it gave them an international scholarship which helped them immigrate to US. But the thing is that for you taking the time to describe that, you're taking a lot of words uh up in order to describe that and it doesn't tell about you. It talks about again um the individual. Okay. That you're talking that influenced you. So I sometimes I would say as I steer away from that as much as I love again I love stories about that it's amazing. Um and maybe you can mention that in your other essays but for for the Y essays uh the Y school essay or Y major it's such a small essay short essay that I would not necessarily use that because it it you it's too much. There's not enough words to be able to fit in um and talk about you. Okay. Um Okay. How to put two majors and activities in one app. Okay. So typically what I would say is is this is that a lot of times there there is one question I've seen it where they say okay tell us about this major um and then tell us about a secondary major. So again it's one of those things where um normally those are split up they actually have two questions about that. So that's what I normally see. Um, and the one thing is is that, uh, if you're going to do that, then choose if there's only one, choose the primary. Choose the one that's the most important. Okay. Um, that's that's what's important again is what your main main uh, major is that you're looking to pursue. Um and then you know as for the activities um you can mention that here's a certain things that you've done for that main but I would not um dwell so much on the two majors especially if they're completely different. Hopefully they're not. Hopefully they're related. Um because if they're related then you could say as a secondary you could say well I want to go into you know um um mechanical engineering um but with the emphasis on this something like that. Okay. All right. Again, if you are wanting to get a free assessment, please uh go ahead and do um and and text it to this number 949-7750865. Um not to the chat because if you do in the chat, unfortunately, we can't track you that way. Uh we can't um we won't be able to call you back. So again, 949-775865. Uh text B if you want a free 15-minute assessment. Okay. Um, it says here, "UC's now allow alternate majors." Okay, so for the UC's, again, remember we're talking about supplemental essays here. So, the supplemental essays do not correspond to the UC's because the UC's don't have supplemental essays. They have four PIQ's. Now, they might ask for an additional essay after they have reviewed your application. And maybe there's something specifically where they ask you a question about, let's say if you're an art major, uh they may ask, "Oh, well, why are you inspired by your art that you do or something else?" So, that is what would be considered a supplemental essay, but they don't have a supplemental essay straight out because they have their four PIQ's, but the question here says UC now allows um alternate majors. Um what they've done is they they have always asked for a secondary major um just in case. But uh now uh UCLA removed that. Okay. So now you can't even put a secondary major. You can only put the primary major. And I and I think um a lot of the UC's are going to follow suit because uh the UC's are so popular now that it they really don't even get to that secondary major or that alternate major. Okay. So unfortunately um that's the case with uh the UC's. Okay. All right. Let me see if there's anything under uh additional for Q&A. I don't see any questions on Q&A. Okay. All right. I don't see any questions there. Um I'll ask again. Is there any other questions about um the about um what I mentioned here with supplemental essays. Any other questions. I'm going to go look at here. Okay, I'll ask the question of everybody else here. Um, is um, was this content beneficial for you. If you can do that, if you can give me a heart, I would greatly appreciate that because that gives me indications. Okay, great. I got a lot of hearts. Excellent. Awesome. Okay, so I will uh, call another qu I'll say it again. Um, is there um any other questions that you have about any of the material that we covered here today for supplemental essays. Okay. I always I always like to to ask three times. So, um Oh, okay. Here's another question. What schools use supplementals. Okay. So, that's really hard. Okay. That's a that's a really hard question because um um it really depends. Okay. And um I will say is that um I've seen a lot of the schools uh in the common application um a lot of them do use supplementals. Um I can't give you the exact number of which ones do. Um but a lot of time it is typically the why college Y major. That's that's just the typical. Okay. Um I've seen that a lot. And so that's the reason why the whole modular process that I talked about is really really important because if you're, you know, applying to 15 20 schools through the common app, that can mean again 15 to 20 Y college Y major. Okay. And so it really does help you to save some time um to get a very very strong why college Y major uh core paragraph and then you're just inserting the stuff. Okay. Um so no UC's or no uh no so uh the question was no UC's. So definitely the UC's do not use supplemental except for as I mentioned if they after they review your your your uh application if they have additional questions they may ask you for additional questions like I know one of them was well um I think last when I helped another student it was about art and why his art inspired him and so he had to write um a a fairly lengthy um essay about that. Uh the Cal States um don't ask for uh essays at all. Okay. So there is no supplemental. Um any advice on the roommate essay. Okay. Yes. So any advice on the um roommate essay for Stanford. Uh that's interesting. So you know it's funny. Um, so first of all, um, I want to make sure that, um, so it's very important. So, so here's a here's a couple of of of tips, okay, about, um, writing the the roommate essay, okay. Um and um let me kind of kind of give you a little bit of um so if you want to write about that, you know, you need to really demonstrate a couple of things. First of all, you want to demonstrate that you are an interesting and you're you're an intelligent person. Okay. Because this is one of those that are very unique. Okay. It's it's this is where they and gosh, I'm getting the sun in here. Uh this is where they kind of show uniqueness about you. Okay. And it also um kind of asks about your your something of value to the campus. Okay. And then lastly, can you write. All right. Um so that's one of the things that um I think is really important about this particular um you know essay or so because um the one thing you know in writing about this um you want to you know want to write about um it's not only the way you write your but it is about you know a really good way and a and there's a great way. Okay. So I'll give you kind of u an example and I'm trying to pull up an example that I had before. Um, let's see here. Forgive me here. Give me a second. Okay. Uh, okay. Uh gosh. Okay. Forgive me. I'm trying to bring up my example here. Sorry. Um, the Okay, let's see. Um, okay. Um, yeah. Okay, I got it. Okay, hold on. All right, here we go. Okay, so what you want to do when you're Okay, so really again, what you want to do when you're focusing on the Stanford roommate essay is first of all, um, it has to be very conversational. Okay. Um, that's the reason. A lot of people they kind of or a lot of students write it in a way of where it's uh more towards uh writing it like an essay but this is very very conversational. Okay. You want to share really specific details about your traits, your interests um and use humor in this. Okay. You want to really um make sure that you're creating um this and and you're conveying a genuine excitement about living together and and learning about who you are by giving details of who you are. Okay. And so that's that's really really important. So you want to be authentic. So it's just like any other um essay that we write when we talk about is you know one thing is is you really you don't want to it's not just about a story you want to talk about your interests you know specific uh illustrations about who you are right so for example like um you know um you enjoy uh I don't know um you enjoy skydiving okay and then you describe a specific experience about skydiving Okay. Um I and and really don't be afraid to show any like quirkiness, you know, uh revealing any habits or passions of yours, you know, uh because that's what makes you original. Okay. So, you want to write it in a conversational, a friendly uh tone. And then, um really also what you want to do is uh you want to start with um sometimes a strong opener, something that could be surprising like grabbing. And this is the one essay that I always say that, you know, another thing is strap slap the reader in the face. That's my my phrase, slap the reader in the face. You know, you want something that can really get attention and really use vivid language. You know, paint a picture with your words. Okay. Um, and the biggest thing is just showing your personality. Okay. Um, you could do this through, you know, your academics and what you aspire to and everything else, but what I want to make sure you don't do, you want to do is you you want to make make sure you have a balance on that, right. Um, and um, just like I said in the supplementals, don't, you know, avoid a lot of cliches. Um, show your passion. Um, you know, reflect your values. Um, those are the important things about, you know, writing uh, the the the essay for that, the roommate essay. But the big thing is it has to be, you know, conversational. Okay. Um because the thing is is that um a lot of times for the uh roommate essay for Stanford, you can get down a rabbit hole very quickly because you just start talking about this and that. So what you again really want to do is it's not it's a it's a rather short essay. You don't want to just ramble and ramble. You want to make sure that you have a clear thought of what do you want to communicate to your um to your future roommate of who you are. Like what is your core. What is your values. U maybe what and how does maybe the quirkiness or or those things how does that uh influence you. Okay. All right. Well, um with that said, uh again, it's I can't believe this. There's so many people that joined today. It's amazing. Uh, thank you again. Last last last plug here is if you want a 15-minute assessment, type in B at 949775865. I am always so um blessed. I feel blessed and feel so honored that you join me in my trainings. And the reason why is because you could be doing something else. Uh you could be spending time with your family and friends, but you choose to spend that with me. 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