Wednesday, October 8, 2014

A collection of college essays to sift through.

Here are some links that you can use as model essays for writing your college application essays. Feel free to see me about specific style elements.

To paraphrase Austin Kleon from Steal Like An Artist: Stealing from one is "bad theft." Stealing from many is "good theft." To see the rest of the chart, find the book in the classroom shelf.

John's Hopkins University
University of Chicago Law School.
Tufts
Carnegie Mellon University

As you might imagine, I would love for you to read these, annotate what you think is working/ not working and then conference with me about how to get your voice in your essay using these ideas or structures.