| I'm not a wonderfully creative person, so most of my first lines were pretty mundane. But hey, I still got into all 12 schools where I applied (I didn't apply to Ivies, though), so I guess first lines aren't everything. I do admit that good first lines can help a lot, though.
Anyway, I guess my favorite first line from one of my essays was "Dear Michael,". The prompt asked us to write a piece of advice I would give to a ten year old, and as my brother happened to be just about that age, I wrote it as a letter to him. I really liked the essay, as I got to think about it more as a personal thing to him than simply a college admissions essay. | 
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