Dear Admissions Committee..

With university around the corner there comes the stress and anxiety in preparing to apply to University. We prepare our portfolio’s and write our admissions letters and we are set to take the leap. With having written my admissions letter, I realized it was no easy process. This was where I needed to shine, I needed to prove myself, you can be great in person but if you can also be great on paper… Well that was my goal. During this process I was forced to sit down and go through my accomplishments of the past couple years. Interesting enough each time I discovered something new to put in my letter, the more confident I became, it was me who had accomplished all these great things on my list.

It was only here that I realized how much I had accomplished in so little time. I straightened myself out and I had done more in the last 3 years of my life than all 19 put together. Then I thought about how much time I had left in life to accomplish so many other things i haven’t gotten around to yet. I throughly enjoy thinking of the future because it is mine to shape. Although it is important to not set our sights to high, you need have some sort of confidence in yourself. There must be some voice inside your head saying you can do it, because if you don’t believe in yourself, who else will?

After completing the letter I had suddenly felt at ease with university applications. Not only had the letter conveyed myself to be perceived the way I intended but it also did something for my self esteem. It was so much easier to visualize what I had been doing with my academic career up to this point while it was in my own words on paper. I was even more surprised at how much writing the letter motivated me to be bigger and better than I already was (and that’s pretty damn good) but it did, and sometimes it can be hard to find that motivation.

With that said, if you feel like your life is at a standstill and you can’t quite figure out where to go next, I would suggest writing a admissions letter. Because nothing compares to writing a great story when you’re the main character.