 Prompt number five, the open topic. Easier said than done. What to write, how to impress, stick around, or key strategies you want to be armed with when tackling the open topic. Thank you for joining me on my channel for the best college essay advice. Subscribe and hit the bell to be notified when I post new video. I'll wait. Fun fact, the open topic was a number one essay prompt on the Common Application last season. So if you have applications on both platforms, the coalition and Common App, this is a great essay topic to consider. Now by the end of this video, you will have three key strategies you want to implement when approaching the open topic because so much freedom can be stifling. Hi, I'm Dr. Josie with Write Your Acceptance with hundreds of students already in college or graduates by now. I know how to make the admission officers remember you. And now it's your turn. Stick around. Tip one, teach something you learned. This is one of the most adaptable concepts for any of the topics really because it shows growth. So let's say you dedicated time, tears, effort, years to archery, debate, soccer, ballet. And so now you are teaching that in some capacity as a coach in community service. And so you can bookend the experience by something you learned and then now paying it forward by something that the craft that you're teaching. Tip two, make sure your essay has an elevator pitch that you can boil down the topic of the essay in one to two takeaways. Sometimes with so much freedom, students will go on a tangent here and then go on the other tangent and get so inspired and talk about this in the squirrel. And so that type of lack of focus is what we want to avoid with so much freedom. You want to make sure that an admission officer reads it, digests it and then can attribute a favorable characteristic or character trait to you after reading the essay. Do you have a topic for your essay? If you're not sure, it's going to work, comment below. I'd love to help. Tip three, do I hear a high school student or a college applicant? I know. I know. The application says that you can borrow an essay from your four years of high school, but do you really want to chance it? That's like when a girl says she doesn't like flowers. On the first date, you don't get her flowers. I mean, with so much freedom, you're going to want to know how to structure your essay. I have a free college essay guide to download in the description below. And if you found this information useful, please comment boom below, give us a like, subscribe and share with your fellow college bound friends. Thank you. I'll see you soon. I want to get a quick shout out to University of Memphis Tigers for my cousin who just graduated and fellow writer acceptance alum by the way. So I'll see you soon. Bye.