Sometimes asking the right question makes all the difference. If you were a college admission counselor, what essay question would you ask? Please craft and answer your own essay prompt – in your response, reflect on what your chosen question reveals about you. (650 words or less)
If I was a college admission counselor, the essay question I would ask is how do you answer the question, who am I? Baxter Magolda’s Theory of Self Authorship defined self-authorship as the internal capacity to define one’s beliefs, identity, and social relations. Throughout our lives we go through the four phases of self-authorship. Phase one is when you are a young adult and follow the plan that was created for you and telling yourself that it was your own plan. You find yourself at a crossroads in phase two because the plan you were following doesn’t fit exactly what you want to do in life, forcing you to create new …show more content…
We are humans and we all make mistakes. Instead of hiding who we are and the things we’ve done, we can be honest. You say all the good things and then instead of stopping, you talk about the mistakes you’ve made and how you fixed them. Showing that you overcame your difficulties shows that you’re strong person, which is a good quality. Undefeated teams don’t learn how to be humble until they’ve been beaten. The mistakes we make shape us into the person we are. My field hockey coach would always tell my team to approach every game as if you’re playing against the best. If last year we didn’t do well, then the next year we would see what we did wrong and fix it. The team didn’t get better when we ignored the problems we had. Acknowledging that you have a problem that you need to fix is how you better yourself as a person. At the age I am at right now, I shouldn’t know who I am because I am not my own person yet. I am only in the beginning of my transformation into my true
If I was a college admission counselor, the essay question I would ask is how do you answer the question, who am I? Baxter Magolda’s Theory of Self Authorship defined self-authorship as the internal capacity to define one’s beliefs, identity, and social relations. Throughout our lives we go through the four phases of self-authorship. Phase one is when you are a young adult and follow the plan that was created for you and telling yourself that it was your own plan. You find yourself at a crossroads in phase two because the plan you were following doesn’t fit exactly what you want to do in life, forcing you to create new …show more content…
We are humans and we all make mistakes. Instead of hiding who we are and the things we’ve done, we can be honest. You say all the good things and then instead of stopping, you talk about the mistakes you’ve made and how you fixed them. Showing that you overcame your difficulties shows that you’re strong person, which is a good quality. Undefeated teams don’t learn how to be humble until they’ve been beaten. The mistakes we make shape us into the person we are. My field hockey coach would always tell my team to approach every game as if you’re playing against the best. If last year we didn’t do well, then the next year we would see what we did wrong and fix it. The team didn’t get better when we ignored the problems we had. Acknowledging that you have a problem that you need to fix is how you better yourself as a person. At the age I am at right now, I shouldn’t know who I am because I am not my own person yet. I am only in the beginning of my transformation into my true