College Essay Help

For college supplemental essays(undergrad), do I write about my interest in finance and working on Wall Street as a banker or will admissions officers view me in a negative light? I know that people in finance have a bad reputation for being greedy and only focused on money. 

Thanks for the help

Edit:

I'm not talking about my main college essay, I'm talking about the questions that are asked by individual schools like "What do you want to major in and why" and "Why is our school a good fit for you".

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Jack Sky, what's your opinion? Comment below:
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To respond to your edit, don't do that either. What do you want to major in? Say Econ and that you want to do research because you have a love for the subject and want to go into academic research in the field OR finance because you want to create/work with micro finance programs in 3rd world countries or financial literacy advocacy nonprofits in inner cities to promote social mobility. All depends on which school.

Absolutely do not say you want to be a banker in your essays lmao. They know you want to do something like that but you can't just say it flat out. Kind of like how you can't answer "why IB?" with "money" in interviews. It's true but you cant just say it.

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Isaiah_53_5 💎🙌💎🙌💎, what's your opinion? Comment below:
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"Boarders" lol ok

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vladfilipenko, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Feel free to write about what you do.

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moreau1991, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Feel free to write about what you do. You are who you are, and it doesn't matter what the committee thinks. What do they care if you're a banker or a janitor? I think the most important thing is to show your knowledge. Surprise them by writing an essay without mistakes, with the right amount of words, and easy to read. Then they will be satisfied and will not pay much attention to the topic of the essay. When I was in college, wordcounter.ai always helped me with this. It was an indispensable tool for me. I could write any article perfectly. This tool contains many features that can help anyone.

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BlacksAbs, what's your opinion? Comment below:

In fact, you have chosen a very interesting topic.
Were you able to finish everything and what was the result?

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AnnPfeifer, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Thanks for the help.

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payforray94, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Interesting information, I have been studying for a long time and have written a lot of written works, but I have to agree that you always discover something new and interesting. Thanks to my experience, I can now write with ease, but this has not always been the case. There was also something that I had to use services like coursework help, because at that time it was not possible to write really decent essays.

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Anonymous Monkey, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Do not write anything ab banking/money/passion anything like that. Not even kidding this isnt a troll post but pick any random object you see in your room or house or neighborhood and spend hours revising it to make it sounds super sophisticated and make it seem like ur passionate about that story. Basically circle around a point using large vocabulary and meaningless words to make it seem like artistic writing until you dont even know what the fuck it means.

Source: Multiple friends who go to HYPSW who wrote their essays about this. (Friend wrote essay about his alarm clock being turned off during covid-19)

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Harvard_GS_HBS_KKR, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Only do this if you're good at writing and have the intuition and instinct to recognize when something is written well and actually works... I've seen people who attempt to be quirky but aren't self-conscious enough to realize when their essay is a complete mess. If you aren't good at writing, or if you've never written creatively before, you're better off sticking with the basics and writing a polished essay about an experience or character trait that highlights something positive

But I agree with the first part of your comment: if you're aiming for top schools, never, ever write anything remotely preprofessional in a college essay, unless it's about medicine/public interest law/social justice related careers. This might be different for state schools but I wouldn't know as I never applied to any

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BoutiqueAsc, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Maybe write about how you want to be an entrepreneur if you have some interests or something but I'm totally just spitballing. Showing you're motivated, different and creative to an extent is a good thing I'm sure.

But I like the idea of answering that question of what do you want to major by tying it to a set of possible careers you could do in the future for it. A lot of "Emily's" simply write in and say they want to study art because it's interesting, I'm really not up to date on the college essay trends though.

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Urangenii, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Be yourself is all that you can do. We all know whose quote it is. People always respect true people who know what they want. I think that you're just overthinking it too much. Do something you're sure about. Still, if you hesitate, just find an essay service on reddit and ask them to write an essay for you. Actually, it's been a long time since your last reply, so I'd be glad if you kept us updated, masonowner12. So, IMO it's always better to do what you want. Hope you think so too, guys.

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Isaiah_53_5 💎🙌💎🙌💎, what's your opinion? Comment below:
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Be yourself is all that you can do. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

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