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University of Chicago Application Essay Prompt Two: You Wanna Schroedinger’s...
If the title of this post on Chicago’s application essay, prompt two, seems obscure, let’s first take a look at the prompt itself: Essay Option 2. Heisenberg claims that you cannot know both the...
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University of Chicago Application Essay Prompt 3: The Dark Lady
This post will discuss Ms. Sontag and her quote at great length, but I will also focus on the broader problems of responding to quote prompts, particularly the context issues that quotes raise. The...
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University of Chicago Application Essay Prompt 4: A Lesson in Invention and...
This post ranges far and wide as it covers prompt 4 for the University of Chicago for this year. Warning: this is one of my few remaining “freebie” posts for this year. Other posts will be available...
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Yale and Harvard Application Essays for 2012-2013: The Coquette and the Copycat
Note to readers: First of all, if you are reading this in December of 2013, this was written for last year’s apps; on the other hand, much of what I say still applies to Harvard as well as to other...
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How To Write the Princeton Application Essay in 2015-2016
For this year’s Princeton Prompts, see my previous post or click below: Princeton Supplement for the Common App 2015 I have written about several of these prompts before, for the simple reason that...
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Yale Application Essay Topics for 2015-2016: A.K.A. Tell Us Something About...
The Yale essay is ready for you. Are you ready for the Yale essay? For most of you the answer will be, I am not ready. The reason is simple: most of you will need to have a pretty good grip on the...
View ArticleCollege Application Essay No-No’s
This post is a Golden Oldy, but based on some essays I have looked at recently, I am putting it back up front. Long ago, in a decade far away–specifically in 1986–the New York Times columnist Maureen...
View ArticleA Brief on the Law School Application Essay
Most law school admissions committees present a poker-faced description of what they are looking for–send us a two (or in some cases four or more) page description of aspects of yourself/your...
View ArticleThe Secret of College Admissions: How College Applications Are Evaluated
Who should read this post: Anyone who will use the Common Application; anyone who wants to apply to an Ivy League school or to any other elite school; anyone who wants to understand how college...
View ArticleHow to Write the University of California Personal Insight Essays for 2021
The first thing to know about writing successful University of California application essays involves the serious time commitment they demand. Early in this decade, the U.C. doubled the number of...
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