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These EFL students were investigated to find out their capability to write appropriate application letter or usually called as cover letter. The problem found is the EFL students are failed to write good impression to the reader or employer. A writer should be able to make good impression about herself to the employer, because the essential point of writing application letter is how to impress the employer about a writer or a job seeker’s selling points. The writer found that most students need to be trained to write an application letter with good impression. This study focused on sixteen random students of the second semester in Budi Darma University Medan majored in Computer Engineering. The data was collected in August 2021. The data collection was conducted by assesing the samples of sixteen students’ writing test. The data was analyzed by using quantitative analysis to get the percentage of the students who were failed to write application letter with good impression to the reader. The results indicated that the students were less experience in writing application letter with good impression to the reader especially in personal touch it is how to write proper salutation and closing then followed by less experience in writing addressee and contact details. The suggestions are proposed to improve writing training to the students, the improvement of training to write application letter with good impression especially in personal touch and contact details.  \nKeywords: Good Impression; Writing Application Letter; EFL Students  \n1. INTRODUCTION  \nWriting is one of four English language skills which is taught in school and university. The ability of writing subject is differently performed by the students, especially writing in English language for EFL Students because writing in Bahasa Indonesia and English are highly different. Writing in Bahasa Indonesia Students who have read many articles, use the vocabulary in daily activities will easily comprehend the text, in addition the factor of text the presentation of detail information of describing how something look, the writer uses spatial descriptive text (Putri Ramadhani in JLEE Vol 1, No 1, March 2020, pp. 9 Writing Descriptive Information as the Medium to Promote Halal Cuisine) explained that the more descriptions presented in a text will help the reader with zero experience of something to be easier to describe new word, terms in the text based on the color, size, shape, and may details. EFL (English as Foreign Language) Students who have no experience in reading technical terms will face some difficulties to translate the terms from source language; English to target language; Bahasa Indonesia.  \nWriting ability cannot be separated from another skills related with language, they are reading skill, speaking skill, and listening skill. Writing application letter is one of lesson subject taught for university students who are expected to ease them facing competition in job after they graduate from university. English lecturer in University level who teach EFL students found some problems faced when the students do not match the job provided in job application with the position they are write in application letter. The problems in writing related to poor translation and vocabulary experience in job application terms. Newmark, 1998 “Good translation ease people to get information with no misinterpretation. 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