Essay prompts are requiring more and more from high school seniors, expecting answers to life questions from their short 17 years of life. They expect teenagers to know before they even start. High school students are trying to answer life's greatest questions, pulling facts from their lives and trying to embellish them as much as possible. With that in mind, teenagers enter college thinking that they have to be someone that they are not.
Julia Ryan writes her essay with an angry tone, she is furious at why colleges would expect teenagers to know the answers to deep questions concerning life. She uses an example of her own teenage years and writes how she would never have had anything deep or philosophical to write for those essay prompts. She uses a disdainful tone to show her dislike towards what colleges are subjecting teenagers. She uses a simple vocabulary because she point is not anything grand or complicated but to tell other people how ridiculous colleges are being, expecting people who have only lived for 17 years to know the answers to life at the beginning of their journey of life. She wrote a short and concise essay, directly getting to her point and jabbing at the colleges whenever she has the chance. Even though the essay was short, she was consistent throughout and wrote a very strong and emotional piece.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/applying-to-college-shouldnt-require-answering-lifes-great-questions/280250/
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