{"id":4528,"date":"2010-09-28T01:05:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T09:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2010-09-29T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T09:08:08","slug":"essay-diet-tip-slim-down-your-obese-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/essay-diet-tip-slim-down-your-obese-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay Diet Tip: Slim Down Your Obese Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an essay tip that is applicable to everyone \u2013 med school  applicants dealing with rigid AMCAS application character limits,  b-school applicants with word count limits, law school applicants with  more flexible page guidelines, and college and grad school applicants  trying to write concise, tight essays. And in fact, that is the key to  shortening your too-long essays to within the required limit \u2013 you must  learn to construct a succinct essay by trimming away the unnecessary  filler words. The result? A trim, tight essay that gets right to the  point and stays within its boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you achieve this word-count weight-loss?<\/p>\n<p>Follow these \"diet tips\" and you'll start to see words disappear before your eyes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eliminate the use of unnecessary helping verbs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Obese:<\/strong> He is going to be applying to eight law schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Trim:<\/strong> He will apply to eight law schools.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Use simple, expressive verbs instead of adverbs that only assist prosaic verbs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Obese: <\/strong>She reacted enthusiastically.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Trim:<\/strong> She enthused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Trimmer:<\/strong> She gushed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Don't ever \"take advantage of the opportunity\" to do something; rather, just do it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Obese: <\/strong>I took advantage of the opportunity to go exploring in the Himalayas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Trim:<\/strong> I explored the Himalayas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn how to turn nouns into verbs to eliminate filler words.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Obese: <\/strong>I came to the realization that\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Trim:<\/strong> I realized\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As always, a successful diet requires will power \u2013 you can do it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Accepted.com Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/personalstatementflaws.aspx?utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=Post&amp;utm_campaign=TipPost\"><strong><em>5 Fatal Flaws<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/ecommerce\/essaysthatstick.aspx?utm_source=Blog&amp;utm_medium=Post&amp;utm_campaign=TipPost\"><strong><em>Essays that Stick<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/?utm_campaign=BlogContent&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_source=BlogVisitors&amp;utm_content=AcceptedIcon\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/object3\/947\/54\/s8255073883_9880.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1260090948492\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span>Accepted.com<\/a> ~ Helping You Write Your Best<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span><a title=\"ShareThis via email, AIM, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc.\"><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an essay tip that is applicable to everyone \u2013 med school applicants dealing with rigid AMCAS application character limits, b-school applicants with word count limits, law school applicants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[641,39],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","tag-admissions-tips","tag-mba-admissions","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/4530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}