50 Successful Harvard Application Essays What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice

Name: 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice
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ISBN: 9780312624385

ISBN-10: 0312624387

ISBN-13: 9780312624385

Edition: 3rd 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Harvard Crimson Staff, Staff of the Harvard Crimson

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With diverse and talented applicants coming from the top high schools in the country, all students are feeling the pressure to craft application essays that are clear, passionate, and, above all else, persuasive. No easy task. To help, this completely new edition of 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, 3 rd Edition showcases the exact approaches, both conventional and creative, that won over admissions officers at Harvard University, the nation's top ranked college. From chronicling personal achievements to detailing unique talents, the variety of topics covered with these essays opens applicants up to new possibilities and techniques for effectively telling their stories. Each essay…

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List price: $14.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 7/6/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



Introduction: The Admissions Essay



The Survivor: Overcoming Challenges and Adversity


ï¿½You Speak Too Fastï¿½



ï¿½Its Name Was Wheelie…ï¿½



ï¿½Stage Frightï¿½



ï¿½Overcoming the Fear of Failureï¿½



ï¿½My Lifeï¿½



ï¿½New Kind of Magicï¿½



ï¿½The Freedom to Be Differentï¿½



ï¿½The Brooke Runï¿½



ï¿½In a Pickleï¿½



ï¿½Untitledï¿½



ï¿½The Sensitive Itinerant: Changes, Repercussions, and Dealing with Itï¿½




One Among Many: Presenting A Unique Applicant


ï¿½Simple Sentencesï¿½



ï¿½Endless Forms Most Beautifulï¿½



ï¿½The Space Between the Notesï¿½



ï¿½Transnationalism Made Fleshï¿½



ï¿½Harvard Supplement Essayï¿½



ï¿½Journeys from the Dress-Up Boxï¿½



ï¿½When I Was Tenï¿½



ï¿½Bus Window Revelationsï¿½



ï¿½Crossing the Rubicon? Child's Playï¿½



ï¿½Creativity, Family, and Toilet Paper: A Journeyï¿½



ï¿½The Circle Gameï¿½



ï¿½Concerto in C Minorï¿½



ï¿½Zigguratï¿½



ï¿½Toddler Coutureï¿½



ï¿½Still Lifeï¿½



ï¿½Untitledï¿½



ï¿½College Essayï¿½



ï¿½Headlines, Herodotus…and Full-Field Sprintsï¿½




Storyteller: Experiences that Illuminate Character


ï¿½I've Grown Out of Itï¿½



ï¿½The Little Thingsï¿½



ï¿½Charlieï¿½



ï¿½Music in the Basementï¿½



ï¿½There Were No Tearsï¿½



ï¿½Coming Homeï¿½



ï¿½A Beach Gameï¿½



ï¿½Beauty in a Potbellyï¿½




Through Their Eyes: Finding Yourself in Others


ï¿½Elephant Daddyï¿½



ï¿½Running with Four Feetï¿½



ï¿½Fruitful Collisionsï¿½



ï¿½Dropsï¿½



ï¿½Mingaï¿½



ï¿½The Journeyï¿½



ï¿½Gli Strati della Storia (The Layers of History)ï¿½



ï¿½Untitledï¿½



ï¿½Motherï¿½



ï¿½Delve!ï¿½



ï¿½A Ride Through the Fieldï¿½



ï¿½Untitledï¿½



ï¿½My Motherï¿½