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Secrets of the College Application Essay Process #5
"Why did you ask me out on a date?" "Because you are a girl." Not a good answer, right? Why THAT PARTICULAR college? Learn about the college through their website.
Mistake #5: Not Reading the School’s Website.
I want to go to (Name of School Here): “I want to go to NYU because it is in New York City and I want that city experience.” There are more than TWENTY colleges in New York City….so why specifically NYU? What does NYU offer that all the other institutions don’t offer?
Professor Smith’s maiden name was Quackenbush: Read through the school’s website and discover that 80 percent of the faculty are Nobel Prize winners, that there are 250 clubs and the school provides internships in Papua New Guinea.
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*Don’t cut and paste. Don’t plagiarize. Don’t regurgitate the website’s stats. Merely show the admissions officer that you KNOW the school and what makes the school UNIQUE.
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Randy Levin has a MA in English and a MFA in Creative Writing. He is a published writer and was a high school English teacher in high achieving North Shore Long Island school districts for close to ten years. He works with students on their college application essays through his company: Persuasive Writing Services. The vast majority of his clients are accepted to the Ivy League or other prestigious colleges.
