一位学生劝告说。“这不是说你需要大胆和完全与众不同，但在100篇文章里，有80篇都会讲基本上相同的事情。然而，只有差别才会引起入学委员会注意。如果你的文章因独特、有趣而突出(不要用大话和历史资料去激起委员会的赞扬)，那么我可以肯定，你的申请将比GMAT考试720分的人和来自好学校的人突出。‘好学生’每年有数百名，但领导者和有创造性的人太少。"
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尽管被入取的文章都独特、有趣而突出
但不是因为你的文章独特、有趣而突出，你的申请将比GMAT考试720分的人和来自好学校的人突出。
因为每个人的personal characters 本来就不一样
What I oftentimes see is that people use the essays to focus on lots of things that are extraneous to them, such as their individual work experience; what they do becomes more of a focus than who they are. I am really struggling to get to know the applicants as people and I frankly don't want to hear about the minutiae of their work. I want to hear why they chose to do what they do, why they chose to go to school where they did, what they value about those individual experiences and the impact of these experiences on their development as people. - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvani | 
