Admission essays which are also known as Application essays or Personal
statement as the name suggests are often written by students while they are
applying for admissions in Colleges or Universities. Many colleges and
universities now conduct essay writing as part of their admission process.
Essay writing or the purpose of writing essays is not just to test
the writing abilities of students. Yes this may be one of the criteria, however
more importantly it is to learn more about you as an individual. It tells the
reader more about the way he/she thinks, their approach towards subject
matters, whether they are assertive, authoritative, argumentative etc without
them realizing it. This is of course unless they are asked to write a
particular type of essay. Admission essays are more of generalized topics and
do not emphasize on any particular style of writing and the topics given are
generally open ended so that the writer is given a free hand to write. This
helps the writer to pick up his/her comfort zone of writing thus giving an idea
about his/her personality. Thus Admission essays like all the others are
equally important in order to know more about you as a student.
