Instead of mentioning effective altruism, can you talk about something specific you’ve done? “I volunteered for the Good Food Institute” or “I donated to the Against Malaria Institute” or “I lobbied my congressperson on pandemic preparedness”, anything like that
I’m definitely going to talk about things I’ve done but with the way that a lot of essay questions are worded it wouldn’t work very well. In addition, just saying “I volunteered for X charity because I think they do good work” is unlikely to make me stand out at all, and standing out is really important when it comes to getting into top colleges.
Instead of mentioning effective altruism, can you talk about something specific you’ve done? “I volunteered for the Good Food Institute” or “I donated to the Against Malaria Institute” or “I lobbied my congressperson on pandemic preparedness”, anything like that
I’m definitely going to talk about things I’ve done but with the way that a lot of essay questions are worded it wouldn’t work very well. In addition, just saying “I volunteered for X charity because I think they do good work” is unlikely to make me stand out at all, and standing out is really important when it comes to getting into top colleges.