 Georgetown essays are interesting they throw me off with the pages versus the word counts but I will show you how to adapt your common app magic thank you for joining me on my channel for the best college essay advice subscribe and hit the bell you want to be unique you want to stand down I hear you I have a couple of Georgetown students one of which you've seen on this channel if not check out that video a link above and so I know how to strategize with you hi I'm dr. Josie with write your acceptance with hundreds of students in school right now or graduates by now I know how to make them remember you now it's your turn so essay one the short essay it's about half a page single space and that is discuss significance to you of a school or summer activity in which you have been most involved so now most involved does not mean most hours clocked it should really showcase leadership and that something whether you founded a club or you led a project that something is running smoother because of your contribution and that really is interesting if you can leave a legacy something in place even beyond how you when you graduate that would be even more powerful so as an example I've had a student who loves the theater but had terrible stage fright so she had no interest in actually acting but she basically offered her services as a makeup artist and so she starts narrating the essay how she kind of transformed through makeup one of the history teachers into kind of a you know a personality from cats let's say so she goes into showing image image driven and then kind of backtracks and talks about her love of theater and her contribution and how this was the most kind of enriching and fulfilling for essay two you're going to pick one of these two prompts single spaced one full page and I'll read both prompts so that I can kind of tell you how to strategize or advise you on how to strategize for these so here are the prompts as Georgetown is a diverse community the admissions committee would like to know more about you in your own words please submit a brief essay either personal or creative which you feel best describes you so that's one number two is what does it mean to be educated how might Georgetown College help you achieve this aim applicants the sciences and mathematics or the faculty of languages and linguistics should address their chosen course of study so that's very important because then it kind of switches into a little bit of a why us so why this intellectual pursuit and how will Georgetown help you kind of address that so I share those two prompts together because most of the students I'm working with right now already have a common app or a coalition main essay and if your essay is identity driven you want to make sure that maybe you kind of think about using that for the first prompt the essay that's either personal or creative and you can kind of adapt that make sure no matter what topic it is image-driven you kind of maybe poke fun at yourself or really you showcase no matter what the topic is how you learned and how you grew from an experience so you have an anecdote story you anchor your essay with a story and then you kind of pull out from their lessons learned and how you grew as an individual if you're thinking about or if your coalition or common app essay rather was more kind of obstacle-based you kind of overcome you overcame something you can definitely adapt that for the what it means to be educated so now you want to think about three principles you are never too smart or too old to learn something new learning does not always happen in a classroom and three learning is most fulfilling and most rewarding when you pass it on to someone else where you help someone kind of learn something new and so if you kind of keep in mind those three principles of education you can't go wrong with that essay do you have an essay idea for one of those two main essay prompts but you don't know how to get started or how to adapt your main essay you want to think of diversity to which I'll link above here my video on that comment below I'd love to help you out bonus tip so for applicants to health studies school of business and foreign services you want to make sure you don't forget that additional essay that you have so check that out look for that one want to see a successful Georgetown essay I have it in my free college essay guide in the description below I also am already working with students if you want to get my eyes and my expertise on your essay and how to adapt it editing techniques kind of be more compelling or as compelling as possible I'm working with students I'm working on that right now actually and we have the YS templates we have a lot going on if you found this video helpful please give us a like comment below any of your questions I'd love to help you out and please share with your college-bound friends I really appreciate it thank you so much I'll see you soon bye