One of the biggest challenges secondary school students face when applying for the Early Admissions Exercise (EAE) is the application write-up. I always tell my students that they have to submit a good write-up. After all, polytechnics receive thousands of EAE applications a year. If your write-up is shoddy or unimpressive, then chances are you are not going to make it to the interviews. What’s more, they are going to base their selection solely on your application (after all, they don’t even know you in person so you can’t really blame them). This is sad but true. Welcome to harsh …