How to Start Writing Your Common App Essay

"I could roll a joi-I could roll a bAlL oF cRumBs" lmao I love this, thank you so much for being so open about the whole college process :)

Bruh he’s so naturally funny wtf

bruh "i work better under anxiety" i subbed lmfaooo

“I CAN ROLL A JOINT”

This guy is someone I would REALLY want to be friends with. Not because he got into these elite school, but because he seems SO chill and is willing to go out of his way to help people.

will be a senior in highschool august and am currently stressed abt the essays..this helped sooo much

1. Find an idea 2. Brainstorming aka: timeline of your life & what things changed you and made you who you are. DON'T search for petty If you're going to talk about your difficulties talk HOW you overcame them. They want to see your resilience and how you developed as a person. Don't talk way too much about sports, hobby, mission trip, bad parents, etc. It's overdone 3. Make your essay interesting, something people wants to read Talk about yourself, like a mini chapter of you and put it all together. 4. Don't waste your word count! 5. Write over the word limit and start cutting it down about stuff that's not important. (Go approx. 100 words over your word count to narrow it down later)

" Start early, start now..." I haven't started and it's due today, lmao.

don't be shy read your eraser essay :)

bruh i’ve been watching videos of people reading their essays & people giving suggestions for a week & i couldn’t think of topics to write about. it took me halfway through your video to think of a good topic so thank you, you are elite.

Thank u so much there is nobody who broke down these details like u

"Start early,plan years ahead" my essay is due in about 19 hours and I just now titled it and thought of a topic

Ayy we hit 1k! I'll be reading my essay soon but probably gonna upload sometime in June, after APs and the school year is over.

I’m done with my essay but I still watched the full video. This is some fire content bro, a lot of students will benefit from your tips. Also post some more if you can you’re hella entertaining

wow I cannot tell you how much this helped me with my essay I am far from an Ivy league applicant with a terrible gpa and a semi decent sat score really appreciate you taking the time to make this video!

Me writing my essay 11 hours before I have to turn it in, but i like doing my work at night

im dead the humor in this video is iconic i died at you reading the georgia lebedev from the department of bio science and WHY DID I LAUGH WHEN YOU SAID YOU WORK BEST AT NIGHT UNDER PRESSURE but thank you for this video it is really helpful as i am now here in september still struggling to outline my essay :')

me looking this up when deadline is tmrw rip

I'm a rising sophomore in high school and have been thinking more about college, your videos are so fun to watch and you give great advice! Saving these videos for later :)

I watched your essay video when it came out months ago and when I sat down and started writing mine yours was what really inspired me to write mine and honestly I wouldn’t have thought of my prompt without inspiration from you so thank you