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Category: Significant Experience Essay
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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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In my last post, I discussed what is know as The Significant Experience Essay, which appeared, among other places, in Prompt 1 of the Common Application Personal Statement for 2011-2012. Possibly you’ve done the prewriting exercise I recommended in the last post, and you may even now have an essay in hand and are looking…
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Most college applications have a prompt which addresses a personal experience. An example can be found in the Common Application essay prompts, which have not changed in recent years; in the first prompt for the Common App essays for 2011-2012, you will find what I call the “Significant Experience” essay, which is broken down into…
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