Importance of External Areas of Focus
I call these external areas of focus because it is your experiences around these “areas” that the admissions committee will use to predict your chances for success in school and beyond. These areas of focus are the “windows” to the person that you are inside. Although this view is not a complete picture, it is a good enough approximation.
To understand the external areas of focus in relation to your inner self, let’s use an analogy from a medical diagnosis. Your doctor does an exam and then gives you a diagnosis of what you really have. If your doctor “sees” that you have a runny nose, a cough and a slight fever, he/she might diagnose you with the common cold. The symptoms are the external areas of focus and the common cold is what you have inside.
So how does the medical diagnosis analogy have anything to do with these essay questions you might ask? Well, to cure your symptoms, you need to cure the common cold that you have. Taking cold medicine will temporarily relieve your symptoms but not cure you. In order to affect your answers to the external areas of focus questions, you need to change what you are inside.
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