Love in College Essays

Love in College Essays February 14 We advise you not to write about love in your college essays (photo credit: Amanda). On this Valentines Day, weve got some advice regarding love in college essays. If youre applying to a highly selective college in the next year or couple of years, we urge you not to write about your romantic interests in your admissions essays. Dont write about that time when you first kissed your girlfriend under a moonlit suburban street. Dont write about that time when you had the courage to go up and ask a boy out. Thats great that you did that. But do not write about it in your college admissions essays. Dont write about falling in love. Dont write about how a breakup changed your life. Dont write about how much your girlfriend means to you. College admissions officers do not want to read about your love life. They dont care. Who cares about a sixteen year-olds love life anyway? Unless its in a movie like Perks of Being A Wallflower. In fact, dont write about love at all. Its too big of a topic. Tackle a smaller topic. The best college admissions essays come from the smallest of topics. Not big ones like love and war. Writing about seemingly nothing is much better than writing about a whole lot. So just as you should avoid writing about your deceased grandfather, your service trip to South Africa, your come from behind race in which you won in spite of having a sore left big toe, dont write about your love life. Nobody cares and especially not admissions officers at highly selective colleges. But we do wish you a very happy Valentines Day! Or House of Cards Day. Whichever you prefer.