Importance of External Areas of FocusI 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
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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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