“Every person has a creative side, and it can be expressed in many ways: problem solving, original and innovative thinking, and artistically, to name a few. Describe how you express your creative side.”
How your child thinks when there is no instruction sheet.
Three things worth noticing before you say anything — and one rule: notice them out loud as questions, not corrections.
This is where you show your right-brain side — imagination, holistic thinking, intuition, art, rhythm, visualization. You can be creative in a Fine Arts class, in Engineering or Robotics club, in Taekwondo, or at the piano.
What this is not: a place to describe a talent the way you would write it on a resume. That is question 3. Here, be creative in how you answer, not just in what you claim.
Creativity counts when it is problem solving too. If you solved something in an odd way that worked, tell me the steps you took — that is the essay.
And whatever they write: SHOW the reader, do not TELL the reader.
The example essays are the part families ask for most, and the part we keep inside the course. Every question gets at least one real student response, with Danielle’s notes on why it landed.
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