When College Admissions Essays Go Viral

Source: theatlanticwire Posted By: Nishel R...4027 days ago

Today the Ivy League gossip blog IvyGate unveiled a public Google Drive folder in which members of Columbia University's Class of 2017 had saved the personal essay each had included with their Columbia application. The 69 essays ranged wildly in both quality and form. One featured an imaginary dialogue between the applicant and the librettist Oscar Hammerstein; another consisted of an elaborate fable that sought to explain the subprime mortgage crisis. Writing about "hipsterdom," one prefrosh wrote,....

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