(成功申请大学的个人陈述范例) 100 Successful College Application Essays
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作者： Harvard Independent 著
出 版 社： 励马文化传播
出版时间： 2002-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 291印刷时间： 2002/12/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780451207135包装： 平装内容简介
The essay is the one part of the college application that allows an admissions committee to get a glimpse not only of what you are (grades, scores, club member), but of who you are. "Applicants are constantly advised to 'put their best foot forward,'" says Fred Hargadon, the dean of admissions at Princeton University and a contributor to this book. "But I must confess that I always liked the ones who put both feet forward." That doesn't mean that your essay needs to shock. It means you must put everything you've got into it. It means that "if you think the college might receive even one other essay like yours," according to Brooks School college counselor William K. Poirot, "rewrite it."
The bulk of this book, as its title promises, comprises 100 examples of successful college-application essays. There are those who believe that reading essays will make you a better essay writer and those who don't. But reading these essays--and the experts' comments on them--will help you figure out what you want to write and how best to write it. From the essays included here, one surmises that the narrower your focus, the more effective the essay, as long as your narrowness doesn't cross over into insignificance. What matters most is not what you write about (these essays take on late-night TV game shows, self-induced baldness, the picture on a bag of Goldfish crackers, a family drive on the New Jersey Turnpike, and even a seven-inch plastic Godzilla), but what you do with your subject matter. --Jane Steinberg --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
目录
Preface
On Writing the College Essay
Advice from the Inside
by Fred A. Hargadon
Dean of Admission, Princeton University
The Question of the Essay
by Delsie Z Phillips
Director of Admission, Haverford College
What Not to Do . . . and Why
by William K. Parot
Former College Counselor, Brooks School
North Andover, MA
How to Use This Book
by Thomas D Harvey
Former Assistant Headmaster for External Affairs,
Poly Prep Country Day School
Brooklyn, NY
Essays on Applying to College
Charles W Applegate Jennifer Applegate Eric A. Maki
William Meyerhofer Arun Ramanathan Julie f Rim
Karen Steinig Kristin Ward
Essays on Coming to America
Anonymous Tami Nassiri Thai Pham Nguyen Dong Quan
Drawings and Cartoons
Paul K Min Zoe Mulford Jaeyong So
Essays on Death and Dying
Ann-Marie Breaux Julie C Cantor Stephen Gripkey Juliet Siler
Essays on Family
Anonymous Lydia Bassett Kelley P. Borden Ellen L. Chubin
John R. Trierweiler Julia D. Kyle Deanna E Barkett Ron Lee
Kimberly D. Morgan William S. Plache Jacob Press
Leah S Schanzer Brittany Krupica Susan Ashley Michael Wechsler
Offbeat and Other Essays
Anonymous Sarah H.Bayliss Paula Bernstein Matthew Brady
Adam Candeub Theodore Grossman Terence 17. Kelley Sam Liu
Scott Locke Jamie E Metzl Eric Pulier Brian C. Smith
Self-Portraits
Ellen L Beckerman Jordana Simone Bernstein Arielle Simon
Ann Cox Theodore C. Dros Cody Corliss Don Hoffman
Josh Jacobs Joseph Libson Heather L. Nadelman
Christopher C. Roberts Phil@ Rodgers Sara G. Silver
Dawn N Skwersky Julia Marie Smith Dimitri Steinberg
Jo-Ellen Truelove David C. Weymouth Joanne B. Wilkinson
Srinivas Ayyagari William Couper Samuelson
Essays on Sports and Activities
Shelley Ledray Bornkamp Charles D. Haley Joseph Libson
Gregory Lippman John C Martin Kimberly I McCarthy
Mitch S Neuger Christine Richardson ~ Alexander P. Nyren
Dani Ruran Peter Urkowitz
Idea Essays
Erika N Cleary Jennifer L. Cooper Matthew Fleischer
Annelise Goldberg Colin Hamilton Alan P. Isaac Ameen Jan
Anne M. Knott Zoe Mulford Kristen Mulvihill James P. O'Rourke
Essays on Work Experience
Janet Dix Richard L. Harrington Celia E. Rothenberg
Mina Le Ariel Fox
Essays on Experiences Abroad
Matthew Yglesias Olivia Hung
Essays on Writing
Anonymous Michael Chaskes Nikolas R. Elevitch Carol Zall
