{"id":2633,"date":"2018-11-05T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2018-11-05T05:18:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T10:18:10","slug":"working-on-your-college-essay-dont-forget-to-edit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/working-on-your-college-essay-dont-forget-to-edit\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on Your College Essay? Don\u2019t Forget to Edit."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2634\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2634\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Editing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Editing.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Editing-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>College-bound high school seniors often have a lot of questions about their college essays.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Who better to answer them than those who have learned from experience.<\/p>\n<p>Two current college students recently shared their top essay tips with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/blogs\/college-admissions-playbook\/articles\/2018-10-29\/current-students-share-top-editing-tips-for-college-application-essays\"><em>US News &amp; World Report.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Megan Grove, a senior at Southern Illinois University \u2013 Edwardsville, and Lauren Stanciel, a freshman at the University of Michigan \u2013 Ann Arbor, both emphasized the importance of the editing process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want colleges to read your best essays so that they can get an idea of what you at your best looks like,\u201d Stanciel said. And the way you achieve this \u201cbest essay\u201d is to carefully and completely edit your work.<\/p>\n<p>Grove recommends \u201cactive editing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t be lazy in your editing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You must be an active editor in order to have a successful and professional-sounding essay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/blogs\/college-admissions-playbook\/articles\/2018-10-29\/current-students-share-top-editing-tips-for-college-application-essays\">essay advice from students<\/a> and check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacfairs.org\/learn\/apply\/EssayTips\/\">NACAC\u2019s top 10 essay tips<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\"><em>adobson@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College-bound high school seniors often have a lot of questions about their college essays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-Gt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}