College Essays That Made a Difference, 3rd Edition includes real-life essays written by applicants to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, and more, as well as complete application profiles of over 100 students, including test scores, GPAs, demographic information, and where they got in and where they didn't.
College Essays That Made a Difference, 3rd Edition includes essays submitted to the following schools:
Amherst College Bard College Barnard College Brandeis University Brown University Bryn Mawr College California Institute of Technology Carleton College Claremont McKenna College Columbia University The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Cornell University Dartmouth College Davidson College Duke University Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Georgetown University Hamilton College Harvard College Kenyon College Massachusetts Institute of Technology Middlebury College New College of Florida New York University Northwestern University Pomona College Princeton University Reed College Rice University Smith College Stanford University Swarthmore College Tufts University University of California– Los Angeles University of California–San Diego University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania Washington & Lee University Washington University in St. Louis Wellesley College Wesleyan University Whitman College Williams College Yale University
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College Essays that Made a Difference, 3rd Edition (College Admissions Guides)
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The kids who wrote these essays are part of that handful of students who are vying for admission to the same few upper-echelon schools. When a kid is ranked in the top 2% of their class, has an above perfect GPA (weighted of course so they can distance themselves from their merely intelligent classmates), and spends their summers building schools in Africa, they could copy the back of a Wheaties box for their essay and still get in to schools most kids would would consider a stretch.
These do not seem like typical kids. Their stories all sound as though a college admissions coach got hold of them (and their parent's checkbook) during their freshman year and groomed them to enhance their chances of getting into an ivy ("...now this year we'll have Tommy to start a non-profit"). Give me a kid who had to go out and earn their own money, and did it responsibly, any day.
I would want to see good essays from regular good kids, with regular good grades, and regular...Read more
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This review is from: College Essays that Made a Difference, 3rd Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback)
I bought this for my daughter who will be a Junior in high school this year, thinking she could read these essays from average to above average students and get an idea of what colleges were looking for. Each essay features a student, their photo, biography and what they do in high school/extra curriculars, along with their essay, where they applied and where they actually got in. Unfortunately, these students are all above average and very few are "real" students. Most have above a 4.0 and most are super students with above average accomplishments. The essays are good, but the studetns Princeton Review picked, were "hand picked" to make them look good. Keep this in mind and take the bio's with a grain of salt.
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