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Category: Princeton Quote Essay
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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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Who should read this post: anybody writing the Princeton supplemental essays for 2017-2018. I discussed the short answers and listing responses in my last post–click here for that–Princeton Supplement 2017-18–then read on below for a complete, annotated discussion of this year’s Princeton essays. Let us begin with a quick look at the prompts for this…
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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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