College Essays That Made a Difference

Essays That Scored. Essays That Bored. What's the scariest part of the college application? For most, it's that big white space where an essay is supposed to go. This book puts you in the admissions officer's seat; we give you the intimate details-test scores, GPAs, demographic information, and of course, essays-of 89 elite college hopefuls. You'll find out where they applied and ultimately got in. And where they didn't. 1. Eighty-nine real-life essays written by applicants to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, and more 2. Complete application profiles of all the students, including where they got in and where they didn't 3. Insider advice: Interviews with admissions pros at Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Claremont McKenna College, Johns Hopkins University, Macalester College, Middlebury College, New College of Florida, Northwestern University, United States Coast Guard Academy, Wellesley College, Williams College, and Yale University Inside you'll find essays written for applications to the following colleges: Amherst College Barnard College Bates College Boston College Bowdoin College Brown University California Institute of Technology Carleton College Claremont McKenna College Colby College Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Davidson College Duke University Georgetown University Harvard College Haverford College Johns Hopkins University Macalester College Massachusetts Institute of Technology Middlebury College New College of Florida Northwestern University Pomona College Princeton University Rice University SmithCollege Stanford University Swarthmore College Tufts University United States Air Force Academy United States Coast Guard Academy United States Naval Academy University of Chicago University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania Washington and Lee University Washington University in St. Louis Wellesley College Wesleyan University Williams College Yale UniversityPrinceton Review Staff is the author of 'College Essays That Made a Difference', published 2006 under ISBN 9780375765681 and ISBN 0375765689.