100 Successful College Application Essays
100 Successful College Application Essays (Plume) Christopher J. Georges (Editor), Gigi Georges (Editor)
Publisher: Plume
ISBN: 0452261538
DDC: 378.1664
Edition: Paperback; 1988-12-19
Summary:
The essay is the one part of the college application that allows an
admissions committee to get a glimpse not only of what you are
(grades, scores, club member), but of who you are. "Applicants are
constantly advised to 'put their best foot forward,'" says Fred
Hargadon, the dean of admissions at Princeton University and a
contributor to this book. "But I must confess that I always liked the
ones who put both feet forward." That doesn't mean that your essay
needs to shock. It means you must put everything you've got into it.
It means that "if you think the college might receive even one other
essay like yours," according to Brooks School college counselor
William K. Poirot, "rewrite it." The bulk of this book, as its title
promises, comprises 100 examples of successful college-application
essays. There are those who believe that reading essays will make you
a better essay writer and those who don't. But reading these
essays--and the experts' comments on them--will help you figure out
what you want to write and how best to write it. From the essays
included here, one surmises that the narrower your focus, the more
effective the essay, as long as your narrowness doesn't cross over
into insignificance. What matters most is not what you write about
(these essays take on late-night TV game shows, self-induced
baldness, the picture on a bag of Goldfish crackers, a family drive
on the New Jersey Turnpike, and even a seven-inch plastic Godzilla),
but what you do with your subject matter. --Jane Steinberg
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