Supplemental Essay #6 Book List

gibby
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 22:27:54 +0000

It’s NOT that you need to edit your list, it’s that you need to toss it in the garbage, as most of your list includes ONE TYPE OF BOOK – books that seem to have been assigned for English literature classes at your high school. Where are the books you read for pleasure? Where are the books that show your interest in activities outside of the classroom, be it baseball, basketball, theater, math, politics, computer science, religion? Where are the books of different genres – non-fiction, fantasy, biography, autobiography, plays, movies, poetry etc? Your book list tells an Admissions Director absolutely nothing about you – and truthfully, I think you need to reconsider if choosing this supplemental essay is the right approach for your application to Harvard.