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Category: Essay Beginning With a Quote
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Also known as How to Write the University of Chicago Application Essay: Prompt 2 (The Wild-and-Crazy Prompt). This post discusses writing about prompts in general as well as writing about specific quotes used on the University of Chicago essays. Here are two of the numerous prompts from Chicago that use a quote: “Don’t play what’s…
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Who should read this post: Anybody applying to the Ivy League, or anyplace else that asks you to respond to a prompt that uses a quote or that asks you to use a quote. My usual advice when asked about using a quote to start a college application essay is pretty simple: Try something else–unless…
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Who should read this post: Anybody looking for ideas on an essay about a quote. You should also check out my last post on Writing About a Quote for Princeton, which introduces how to use an essay or a quote from an essay. For those of you who read my post on using an essay…
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Who should read this: anybody interested in writing a Princeton Application Essay, or the Harvard Application (that book/intellectual interest prompt, still going strong) or the Stanford Interest short essay or . . . you get the picture. The broad scope of writing an essay about a quote means some aspects of this post will work…
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Hello–As an FYI, Harvard has not posted its prompts for this year, as of this writing (July 13th). This post is for the class of 2021; if you are applying this year, you will be entering school (barring a gap or spring enrollment) in the fall of 2018, making you the class of 2022. It…
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The University of Chicago has posted its questions for this year. They are earlier in getting out their prompts than many of their competitors, which is only fair–they will, as usual, have some of the most challenging questions out there, as well as some of the most entertaining, so you will want to give this essay…
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Yes, folks, it’s time to get your essays started. If you think that this is premature because most universities haven’t yet released their applications for next year, I simply point to the Common Application prompts, which are unchanged–and most of you will be applying to at least a few Common App universities. Use this link…
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This post discusses a previous year’s Princeton Supplemental Essay prompts and in the process also addresses essays about or based on quotes, as well as addressing essays about ethical matters and personal beliefs. Much of the content is, therefore, germane to these topics in general. Numerous links to examples and additional reading are included. Please…
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