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50 Successful Harvard Application Essays: What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice - Softcover
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You've been told a million times how selective and random the college process is, how the personal essay is your one chance to speak directly to admissions officers and sway them in your favor. You have to be entertaining, persuasive, and passionate, while effectively conveying your personality, character, and ideals. And you only have five hundred words to accomplish this.
50 Successful Harvard Application Essays showcases the kinds of conventional and creative approaches that helped their authors get into the nation's most prestigious college. From coping with family tragedy to seeing Vietnamese soup as a metaphor for one's identity, the variety of topics covered in these essays will help you think about how to write about yourself creatively and effectively.
Each essay is followed by a brief discussion written by a Harvard Crimson staff writer who analyzes its main strengths and weaknesses. Through this analysis and our Fifteen Steps to Success, you'll learn:
-How to pick a topic
-How to structure your essay
-How to keep the reader entertained
-How to avoid common pitfalls
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The Harvard Crimson is the daily newspaper of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its staff consists of three hundred students, and it is the nation's oldest continually operating daily newspaper.
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The second edition of 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays follows the same format as the first: Editors of the Harvard Crimson student newspaper present essays from successful Harvard applicants and offer insightful comments on the strengths, weaknesses, and missed opportunities in each piece. Grouped into loose categories, such as "Memorable Moments" and "Influences," the essays (new to this edition) reflect a wide range of writing styles and experiences, and the introduction includes more basic strategies for preparing a college-application essay. Students will glean new inspiration from the strong examples, even as they are the reminded to ignore formulas and find their own voice. Gillian Engberg
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- PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0312343760
- ISBN 13 9780312343767
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages192
- EditorStaff Of The Harvard Crimson
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