It is probably useless to say that you have to come up with a good college admission essay. Actually, it should be not a good one, but nearly close to perfection – both original and fitting into the rules of essay writing.
 
Well, you are probably sick and tired of these banal phrases. Surely, you need a good college admission essay to convince the committee to accept you. But all these doubtful stimulations and advices are kind of disturbing. All of a sudden they fall on you and everything you end up is a red line “write a good college admission essay” in your head.
 
It is high time to forget about all the guidelines. Otherwise, you will get stuck in the requirements and forget about real writing. A truly good college admission essay is the one inspired by your feelings, ideas, emotions, and memories, not the one dictated by the rules. So, here is a plan.

1. Forget about what everyone tells you about the requirements and “typical” features of a good college admission essay.
2. Concentrate on yourself. Come to think about it – an essay has to be about yourself and events or ideas somehow connected to your world. We believe there is enough space for imagination here as well as plenty of topics to choose from to write a good college admission essay. Which one it will be is totally up to you. We vote for something that you have strong feelings and emotions for.
3. Start writing. Seriously. Without any plans, outlines, sources and the rest of blah-blah. A good college admission essay comes from inspiration. Inspiration does not come from patterns. This is called freewriting. Once you put all your thoughts on paper, you can move on to editing and polishing, because you saved the most important in your writing – the spirit.