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"I watched too many talented students get rejected from their dream schools—not because they weren't qualified, but because their essays didn't do them justice. I built Ascend Ivy to change that. Expert guidance shouldn't cost $10,000."
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Generic & Forgettable
"I have always been interested in science. When I was young, I liked doing experiments. In high school, I joined the science club and did more experiments. I think science is important because it helps us understand the world..."
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"The petri dish shattered at 2 AM, scattering agar across my bedroom floor. Most teenagers would have cursed and gone to bed. I grabbed my notebook, not a broom. Even a failed attempt to culture Vibrio fischeri was still a result..."
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Original Draft
I have always been interested in science. When I was young, I liked doing experiments. In high school, I joined the science club and did more experiments. I think science is important because it helps us understand the world. I want to study biology in college because I find it interesting and I think I would be good at it.
After Transformation
The petri dish shattered at 2 AM, scattering agar across my bedroom floor. Most teenagers would have cursed and gone to bed. I grabbed my notebook, not a broom. Even a failed attempt to culture Vibrio fischeri was still a result—another clue in my three-year quest to understand how marine organisms create light without heat. I built a shoebox incubator with a seedling mat, learned sterile technique after contaminating a dozen plates, and wrote a Python script to track luminescence. Biology, to me, isn't a set of answers; it's the discipline of turning "why" into "how," one messy iteration at a time.
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