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Category: Princeton Application Essay
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The post below contains information from last year’s admissions cycle–some of it still applies, some of it does not, depending on which prompt you will use. For posts on this year’s Princeton application prompts, check these out as well: Princeton Essay on a Quote (from an essay) The 2017-2018 Princeton Application Prompts Who should read…
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I have previously put up posts with detailed information on intellectual and book essays–see the links and table of contents in the first column/post of this website. These posts will also appear under categories and tags for Harvard, Princeton and other University names, as well as under the essay about books, the essay about an…
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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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College Counselors, College Application Services and Test Prep Companies: An Overview and Evaluation
There are four main categories of individuals and businesses currently offering college advising and application essay services. I will take them in order to describe what they offer and the advantages and disadvantages of each. The first category is individuals and companies offering themselves as “College Counselors” or “College Application Advisers.” Many of the individuals…
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One of the greatest challenges in writing an application essay is the length demanded by the Common App and most universities: 500 words (or less). For many applicants, this is akin to writing a perfect Italian sonnet about their lives–or boiling their lives down to a haiku. But if your initial essay has “good bones,”…
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This is the inaugural post on the topic of books and intellectual development for the 2012-2013 application year. I have previously written about this topic in a number of posts; for writing about books specifically, you should start at The Harvard Supplement; Or, How To Write About Books Part 1 , a post from last year. I will…
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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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