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The College Application Essay


Agenda


Materials and Resources


Below is a video produced by the admissions committee from William and Mary College about the people reading your college application essay.
Video below is actually an add for some DVDs, but I thought it was pretty funny... ;-)

10 Opening Lines from Stanford Admission Essays
1. I change my name each time I place an order at Starbucks.
2. When I was in the eighth grade I couldn't read.
3. While traveling through the daily path of life, have you ever stumbled upon a hidden pocket of the universe?
4. I have old hands.
5. I was paralyzed from the waist down. I would try to move my leg or even shift an ankle but I never got a response. This was the first time thoughts of death ever cross my mind.
6. I almost didn't live through September 11th, 2001.
7. The spaghetti burbled and slushed around the pan, and as I stirred it, the noises it gave off began to sound increasingly like bodily functions.
8. I have been surfing Lake Michigan since I was 3 years old.
9. I stand on the riverbank surveying this rippled range like some riparian cowboy -instead of chaps, I wear vinyl, thigh-high waders and a lasso of measuring tape and twine is slung over my arm.
10. I had never seen anyone get so excited about mitochondria.
-CBS NEWS "10 Great Opening Lines from Stanford  Admissions Essays"


Here's The College Essay That Got A High School Senior Into Every Ivy League School


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college_essay_exploration_activity.pdf
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writing_personal_essays_-_turning_oneself_into_a_character.pdf
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the_common_application_personal_essay.pdf
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personal_essay-narrative_writing_rubric.pdf
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english_iv-essay_reflection.pdf
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6_ways_to_begin_a_college_essay.ppt
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an_essay_that_begins_with_a_quote.pdf
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an_essay_that_begins_with_an_anecdote.pdf
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an_essay_that_begins_with_climax.pdf
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an_essay_that_chronicles_a_change.pdf
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an_essay_that_defines_a_term_in_a_new_way.pdf
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two_essays_that_begin_with_setting.pdf
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other_college_essay_resources.pdf
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