TimS comments on Admissions Essay Help? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 02 August 2012 04:26:18PM 3 points [-]

For what the advice is worth, admission essay prompts are not seeking facts about your life, they are seeking insight into your emotional life.

If your essay presents some part of your internal thinking as interesting (uniqueness is good, but being interesting is better), it probably does not matter whether it addresses the question on all fours.