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Admit One - Writing Your Way into the Best Colleges (Paperback)
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Admit One - Writing Your Way into the Best Colleges (Paperback)
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Loot Price R458
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How to craft a dynamic personal essay that will get your college
application noticed. College admissions-that is, admission to the
school of your choice-has become incredibly competitive. Students
and their families prepare from grade school onward to shape school
"careers" that will give them a leg up in applying to selective
colleges. But sterling academic performance, AP classes, high test
scores, and sports and other extracurricular activities are no
longer enough to guarantee a slot at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, or
the Ivies. In Admit One, Thomas Richards focuses on a key aspect of
the college admissions decision, one that makes all the difference
in applications: good writing. This involves mastering the dreaded
personal essay-but more than that, it means "writing" a college
application with a consistent overarching narrative, one that tells
a student's intimate story. Writing has the ability to render the
grain of a student's own voice, fully integrated and fully under
their own control. More than any other element of the application,
strong writing is capable of revealing applicants as individuals
from the inside out, allowing admissions committees to make fine
distinctions between otherwise identical candidates. In plain
language, Richards draws together this sense of writing as central
to college admissions while showing candidates the secrets of
creating an effective, beautifully crafted personal essay. From
selecting words to shaping sentences, building paragraphs, and even
clarifying a voice, Richards's approach is the key to getting a
student's application noticed and read. The resulting essay that
readers craft will come as close as possible to being a trustworthy
representation of a whole person. Treating the college application
as a rigorous intellectual exercise, Admit One contains everything
students need to know in order to present themselves with
clear-edged precision to an application committee.
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