How to Use the Space Wisely in Your Application

The cover letter essay is the one that takes your activities list, what is sometimes called the activities brag. It's sort of like a cover letter accompanying a resume. You have space in your application to tell us about your activities already. You don't need to spend or waste your essay going, you know, rehashing those. The great Hitchcock classic, Psycho, is so good for so many reasons. One of the reasons it's so good is that the main character dies way earlier than you expect. That means the rest of the movie is not the movie that you expected and it's much more interesting.