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Essay Writing Tips for the OU Application

Start your OU application off strong with three tips that OU's admissions counselors handpicked. 

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1. Define Your Essay's Purpose

Before you begin the process of writing your essay, it’s important to think of the purpose behind your writing. What are you attempting to show? Is there any related information that you should also discuss? What are you not trying to do in this piece of writing?

2. Define your audience

Keep your audience in mind when considering your admission essay; in this case, it could be an Admissions Counselor. Thoughts to keep in mind:

  • What does the audience know or not know about my topic? 
  • What does my audience already believe or not believe? 
  • What does my audience care about?

3. Be open, be honest

Your college admissions essay is a different style of writing than a standard English class essay, though grammar use and proofreading is very important! This is your time to shine about what kind of student and person you are outside of your academics. Choose an essay prompt that expresses your differences from other applicants, not what you think the admissions committee wants to hear.

OU's admissions counselors look forward to reading your admissions essay. For additional resources, check out OU's Writing Center website. If you have questions about your admissions essay to OU, contact your OU Admissions Counselor or the Office of Admissions and Recruitment at admissions@ou.edu or call 405-325-2151.