Get me into college, part 2!

Here are a couple more sites to take a look at as you write your essays. The College Board generally recommends that your admissions essay is around 500 words, while other sites say 600-900 words. A good goal is an essay that's a page long, single spaced. You don't want the admissions folks to have to read for a long time; they'll only have a few minutes to read yours, so you want it to be awesome.

Here's the site from the College Board (you know, those SAT folks) that talks about essay writing.

And here's a pretty interesting and useful site from Teen Ink that also talks about essay writing.