<p>According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the Ivy Council–a group composed of students from each of the eight Ivy League colleges–is in the throes of compiling an anthology of “successful” admissions essays. This collection will include 10 essays from each of the member institutions … Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. See [Ivy</a> Council to publish admissions essay book | The Daily Pennsylvanian](<a href=“The Daily Pennsylvanian | The University of Pennsylvania's independent student news organization”>http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/article/ivy-council-publish-admissions-essay-book)</p>
<p>While I imagine that many Ivy aspirants and their parents will be eager to see what an Ivy-caliber essay looks like, I think that this book should come with a warning on its cover that says: Students, not admissions professionals, have submitted and selected the 80 essays that you are about to read. They may–or may not–have been factors in their authors’ affirmative admission verdicts.</p>