college-admissions

This prompt is a pretty typical one: describe a significant experience. Basically, the school wants to know a little more about you, beyond your resume,...

College essay prompt:

There may be personal information you want considered as part of your admissions application. Write an essay describing that information. You might...

Ernest Hemingway, who shot at German soldiers and wild lions on the regular, was onto something with his short, aggressive sentences.

There's power in brevity.

Simple, declarative...

Whoosh! Reading this essay was like getting in the way-back machine! I remember answering this same prompt for my common app schools back in the...

“Are you okay, Ngozi? Just drop the Starbursts, and walk away.”

“Huh? I-I-I d-don’t know wh-what you’re t-t-talking about,” I stammered as my right eye...

Decisions are the worst!

Sparkler Angela sent us two essays she’s deciding between: one about cats—are they good or evil, friend or foe, smart or incredibly,...