Satiric College Essays

Jayster007
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:27:45 +0000

This one kid did a copy change of a passage from Dostoevsky’s “Letters from the Underground,” basically bashing the entire college admissions system (I read about it in a book, I’ll post a link if I can find it). Out of a committee of 4 admission officers, one officer loved it and the other three hated it with a burning passion. The one admissions officer who loved it wound up defending the kid in front of a panel and succeeded; the kid got into Harvard.

Risk essays can work, but they can also be EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, and I would not recommend submitting one unless you’ve got nothing to lose (a guy with a 1900 SAT going for Harvard).