2017 Accepted Applicant Essay Ideas

differencemaker
Sat, 31 Dec 2016 06:20:00 +0000

Hi guys! I wanted to create a thread to share just ideas (not entire works) about essays that worked! I know that there are threads for sharing essay ideas, but the ideas shared here will be from those who actually were accepted to their respective colleges. A template we can use is:

College Accepted To:

Essay 1:

Essay 2:

Comments:

Here is an example taken from Harvard’s 2016 EA Decisions Thread (http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1253171-official-harvard-university-2016-early-action-decisions-thread-p4.html):

College Accepted To: Harvard

Essay 1: "First was about my father who works hours as a busboy to help make our rent and can only express his feelings to me when inebriated and likewise, I can only express my gratitude for his hard work through my intense dedication to my schoolwork and Latin."

Essay 2: "Second for supp was about my first experience at a certamen and how I initially found it hard to succeed as a one-person team but was able to overcome the atmosphere of intense intellectual apathy at my school to discover my identity as a classicist."

Comments: Both were told in narrative form, Essay 1 made several people cry, Essay 2 might have been too long