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Category: Penn Supplemental Essay
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Back in Blue (and Red): The U Penn prompts are out. Of all the Ivy League applications, UPenn has the most elaborate contextualizing, and their prompts explicitly demand a level of research and personal introspection that is unique, even in the Ivy League. Yes, Cornell asks you to explore your major and puts up an…
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Update and How to Use this Blog First a caveat: my blog has detailed entries on college admissions going back about five years, at this point. My current policy is to keep most of my posts up, as a kind of archive of college application information and also because there are only so many essay…
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This will be my final update for the 2013-2014 application season. With the early rush over, I have a few editing slots open going into the last weekend of December; if you have one or more application essays that you wish to have reviewed and closely edited, splice the following address into an e-mail and…
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Who this post is for: Anybody who needs to write an essay about a quote; anybody applying to Colgate or Penn. Note: some of the links in this post are samples of full length posts available to my clients and subscribers. Subscriptions require that you create a WordPress account and pay me a small fee,…
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