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Tip Sheet: An Admissions Dean Offers Advice on Writing a College Essay - NYTimes.com - 30 views

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  • begin contemplating their college essays this summer
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      I think that beginning your essay early will help.
  • it is one of the few things you can still control.
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      This is nice to know, but also makes me a littler nervous too.
  • If you try to cover too many topics in your essay, you’ll end up with a resume of activities and attributes that doesn’t tell me as much about you as an in-depth look at one project or passion.
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      But how do we know which activity, attribute, or passion is the most important or meaningful for the college application essay?
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  • simple things in life that make the best essays.
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      I really like this. I think that when you turn something normal and simple into something unique and interesting, that shows a lot of creativity and is actually really exciting!
  • Tell me something I couldn’t know just from reading the other parts of your application.
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      When the application covers so much, how do we find something that we already haven't shared on the application? Oh! I know, your personality! :)
  • Show me why
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      Show, that's always my problem. How do we show what is inside of us?
Jenna Frowein

Admissions Essay Ordeal: The Young Examined Life - New York Times - 14 views

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  • filled whole grocery bags with crumpled efforts at expressing his adolescent essence in 500 words or less.
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      This is actually kind of creative and poetic.
  • And though they seem to have more collaborators than ever before
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      It's true! I think that we have so much help! We just need to start and get writing!
  • ''No adult is ever asked to do that.''
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      I think it's cool that they ask us to do this, write about what makes us unique, and adults don't do it. I think it's kind of like a test to find yourself and who you are; when that happens, you are ready for college, I guess.
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  • 'I wrote about racism toward myself
    • Jenna Frowein
      Jenna Frowein on 12 Sep 11
       
      Wow, this is a really interesting comment. My first thought was that he thought he was worthless, and maybe the important thing that he wrote about was how he overcame that and realized that he is a valuable and unique person.
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