Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook199 pages3 hours
Write Your Way In: Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay
By Rachel Toor
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Writing, for most of us, is bound up with anxiety. It’s even worse when it feels like your whole future—or at least where you’ll spend the next four years in college—is on the line. It’s easy to understand why so many high school seniors put off working on their applications until the last minute or end up with a generic and clichéd essay.
The good news? You already have the “secret sauce” for crafting a compelling personal essay: your own experiences and your unique voice.
The best essays rarely catalog how students have succeeded or achieved. Good writing shows the reader how you’ve struggled and describes mistakes you’ve made. Excellent essays express what you’re fired up about, illustrate how you think, and illuminate the ways you’ve grown.
More than twenty million students apply to college every year; many of them look similar in terms of test scores, grades, courses taken, extracurricular activities. Admissions officers wade through piles of files. As an applicant, you need to think about what will interest an exhausted reader. What can you write that will make her argue to admit you instead of the thousands of other applicants?
A good essay will be conversational and rich in vivid details, and it could only be written by one person—you. This book will help you figure out how to find and present the best in yourself. You’ll acquire some useful tools for writing well—and may even have fun—in the process.
The good news? You already have the “secret sauce” for crafting a compelling personal essay: your own experiences and your unique voice.
The best essays rarely catalog how students have succeeded or achieved. Good writing shows the reader how you’ve struggled and describes mistakes you’ve made. Excellent essays express what you’re fired up about, illustrate how you think, and illuminate the ways you’ve grown.
More than twenty million students apply to college every year; many of them look similar in terms of test scores, grades, courses taken, extracurricular activities. Admissions officers wade through piles of files. As an applicant, you need to think about what will interest an exhausted reader. What can you write that will make her argue to admit you instead of the thousands of other applicants?
A good essay will be conversational and rich in vivid details, and it could only be written by one person—you. This book will help you figure out how to find and present the best in yourself. You’ll acquire some useful tools for writing well—and may even have fun—in the process.
Unavailable
Author
Rachel Toor
Rachel Toor was an admissions officer at Duke University for three years. She currently writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education and various running magazines.
Related to Write Your Way In
Related ebooks
On Writing the College Application Essay, 25th Anniversary Edition: The Key to Acceptance at the College of Your Choice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fiske Real College Essays That Work Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5College Essay Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Successful College Admissions Essay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/550 Successful University of California Application Essays: Get into the Top UC Colleges and Other Selective Schools Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings50 Successful Stanford Application Essays: Get into Stanford and Other Top Colleges Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCollege Application Essays Stand Out - Get In: Avoid Common Mistakes and Write Stand Out Essays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInside Stanford Admissions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCollege Admission Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide to Showing Colleges Who You Are and What Matters to You Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hey AdmissionsMom: Real Talk from Reddit Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Write an Effective College Application Essay: The Inside Scoop for Students Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife's Little College Admissions Insights: Top Tips From the Country's Most Acclaimed Guidance Counselors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Independent Teenager's Guide to College Admissions: How to Make the Process Your Own Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Humble Argument: A Readable Introduction to Argument and the College Essay Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShould I Go to Grad School?: 41 Answers to An Impossible Question Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Get Real and Get In: How to Get Into the College of Your Dreams by Being Your Authentic Self Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of the College Essay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/550 Successful Ivy League Application Essays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAccepted! 50 Successful College Admission Essays Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Dirty Little Secrets of Getting into a Top College Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/550 Successful Stanford Application Essays: Write Your Way into the College of Your Choice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/550 Yale Admission Success Stories: And the Essays That Made Them Happen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Write a College Application Essay: Expert Advice to Help You Get Into the College of Your Dreams Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWriting Successful College Applications Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking It into a Top College: 10 Steps to Gaining Admission to Selective Colleges and Universities Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5How to Write a Winning Scholarship Essay: 30 Essays That Won Over $3 Million in Scholarships Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Teaching Methods & Materials For You
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verbal Judo, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Persuasion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Inside American Education Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jack Reacher Reading Order: The Complete Lee Child’s Reading List Of Jack Reacher Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour: Mind Hack, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Personal Finance for Beginners - A Simple Guide to Take Control of Your Financial Situation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Principles: Life and Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Closing of the American Mind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Making Friends: Helping Socially Challenged Teens and Young Adults Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speed Reading: How to Read a Book a Day - Simple Tricks to Explode Your Reading Speed and Comprehension Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Tools of Learning Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers: The Secret to Loving Teens Effectively Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Three Bears Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Write Your Way In
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
1 rating0 reviews