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A guide to writing essays for applications to Ivy League colleges. Explains how to choose a topic, include the right elements, avoid common mistakes, and make the essay effective.

Presents updated and revised advice for writing an effective college scholarship essay. Discusses how to pick a topic, create an outline, write, and edit an essay. Provides thirty real essays that won scholarships, as well as interview strategies, questions and answers with scholarship judges, twelves essays that were not accepted, and a directory of more than 100 scholarships.

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A memoir by a former university admissions officer that reveals how colleges and universities decide which applicants will be accepted at their institutions.

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A guide to writing college essays that includes eighty-nine real essays demonstrating what to do and what not to do and insider tips and advice from admissions officers at thirteen top colleges.