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📚 Word Spotlight: “Prolific” ✨ (a small word that says a lot)

Writers of college essays, meet your new best friend: prolific.

It means consistently productive, abundantly creative, or deeply involved. And it’s a POWER word.

Why it works:

➡️ It shows depth + dedication without sounding braggy. ➡️ It can describe anything from writing to volunteering to robotics to painting murals in your neighborhood. ➡️ It suggests you didn’t just show up once—you kept showing up. That’s what colleges love to see.

Examples:

A prolific volunteer, I spent weekends organizing donation drives and mentoring younger students.

As a prolific tinkerer, I transformed broken gadgets into working inventions—just to see if I could.

📝 Use it when you want to quietly flex your passion + persistence.

Your essay doesn’t need big words; it needs the right ones. “Prolific” is one of them.

✍️🇬🇧 Should you use British spelling in your college essays?

Unless you’re applying to schools in the UK, stick with American English.

So it’s “honor” not “honour,” “organize” not “organise,” and “color” not “colour.”

It’s not about loyalty to the Queen 👑; it’s about consistency and clarity.

📌 Tip: Set your spellcheck to U.S. English before writing. Admissions readers will notice. 👀