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Category: Autobiographical College Essay
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Many applications ask for an essay on a person who influenced you or on an important experience. There are wrinkles to this kind of question–in some cases, the “person” can be a fictional character and the influence can be a work of art, as in one of the prompts from the Common Application in recent…
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Most college applications have a prompt which addresses a personal experience. An example can be found in the Common Application essay prompts, which have not changed in recent years; in the first prompt for the Common App essays for 2011-2012, you will find what I call the “Significant Experience” essay, which is broken down into…
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