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Category: Yale Supplemental Essay
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This is Part 1 of 3 on Yale for 2019-2020. Who should read this post–Anybody applying to Yale. Topics covered–the supplemental short responses, with examples for how to write them. I will separate the Yale Engineering Prompt and the 250-word essays to discuss in Parts 2 and 3, but if you are eager to start…
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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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Warning for those used to reading only 140 characters at a time: This post has analysis and data on Ivy League applications for the last five years, as well as on the most popular U.C. campuses and a couple of interesting alternative schools (particularly for tech and engineering students). It may feel like reading War…
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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 builds on the last two posts and offers a list of themes by which you can classify and discuss books. This includes a detailed discussion of books and particularly of some quality trilogies and series that have been popular in recent years. The post includes suggestions for mixing it up by developing a…
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