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50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, Second Edition: What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice |  | Creator: Staff of the Harvard Crimson
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0312343760
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1616097446
EAN: 9780312343767
ASIN: 0312343760
Publication Date: September 1, 2005
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You've been told a million times how selective and random the college process is, how the personal essay is your one chance to speak directly to admissions officers and sway them in your favor. You have to be entertaining, persuasive, and passionate, while effectively conveying your personality, character, and ideals. And you only have five hundred words to accomplish this. 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays showcases the kinds of conventional and creative approaches that helped their authors get into the nation's most prestigious college. From coping with family tragedy to seeing Vietnamese soup as a metaphor for one's identity, the variety of topics covered in these essays will help you think about how to write about yourself creatively and effectively. Each essay is followed by a brief discussion written by a Harvard Crimson staff writer who analyzes its main strengths and weaknesses. Through this analysis and our Fifteen Steps to Success, you'll learn: -How to pick a topic -How to structure your essay -How to keep the reader entertained -How to avoid common pitfalls
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 mediocre October 10, 2009
Melody (Australia)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
These essays are very individual and personal.
If you're looking to write a college essay, it's going to be difficult to copy any of these ideas.
It's been an OK read.
I found that many of them just drew on cultural, presonal background more than anything else.
One essay which I thought was fantastic.. was about the applicant writing about his passion for magic.
Great read, but hard to replicate August 7, 2009
D. Guo (Ithaca)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Don't expect to know how to write those essays after reading the book. They only show you great essays, not going to teach you how to write one and not going to tell you what's great about each essay.
 More helpful for the Harvard applicant December 23, 2008
Loves to Knit (NJ, USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this last year for my college-bound daughter. She wasn't applying to Harvard but we figure, couldn't hurt. The essays are actually entertaining to read and I can see why most of the students were accepted to Harvard. That said, if you are not applying to Harvard, your school will likely use very diferent criteria when reading the application essay. My daughter's school actually required 2 essays on different specified topics, neither of which Harvard asks.
 Amazing December 1, 2007
Halcykon
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic book. As a first-generation student, I had no clue what to expect from a college essay; I had no idea what made an essay good and what made it bad.
Although this book doesn't directly teach you what a good essay is, the amazing essays in here allow you to 'absorb' the good writing and use it to your advantage.
Vernon (poster before me) is correct here; you still need the grades, the scores, the extracurriculars.. or else the book does not help much.
However, if you KNOW you have a strong profile but do not know what to expect from a college essay (like me), then this book is right for you!
I can't thank this book enough. I learned good writing only paying $14 instead of something astronomical for those editing services.
Ironically, with the help of this book, I got accepted into Harvard's rival school :)
[Handsome Dan] out.
Extremely Interesting November 9, 2006
M. Wyze
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
These essays were very good, some of them were very moving. I found that this book explained the college essay process and was an easy read.
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