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Category: Problem Essay
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Who should read this post: Anybody applying to Yale or Dartmouth and anybody who needs to write about community or about a problem that needs solving. In my previous post, I discussed sorting prompts into categories in order to save time by creating reusable essays, or at least some reusable language. To summarize the basic…
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Many universities use application essay prompts that ask you to write about either a problem of some kind or something you care about. I encourage my clients to try to come up with at least one counterintuitive essay, so let’s do something completely unexpected and go with a retro subject that could fit both of these prompts: libraries. There…
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