where do I see myself 5 years after the program, what have I done inside and outside of the school that makes me a good candidate, how do I work with others and of all the courses the program offers, which one am I most interested in
Write a one-sentence answer for each of these, and see what COMMON THEME runs through all of them. In order to write with good structure, you need to have a
topic sentence for each part of the prompt, and each topic sentence must be related to a central theme. That is how to make it so that the whole essay says one big thing by saying several smaller things.
This is a 5 page essay, so you need more than a paragraph for each part of this. You need 2 to 3 paragraphs for each part, and every paragraph has to have a clear topic sentence.
:-) This will end up being about 13 paragraphs plus an intro para and a conclusion para for a total of 15 paragraphs. That = 14 good topic sentences and one excellent "hook" at the beginning of the first para to get the reader's attention.
:-) I hope that gets you started!!