college-essays

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...

Autumn is upon us, Sparkle-Nation! Good news for apple cider enthusiasts, bad news for pumpkins. As temperatures drop, anxiety sky-rockets—because 'tis the season to work...

Sparkler confuzzledmuggle wrote this essay for the common college application, and elected the "choose your own topic" topic. This itself is a brave...

Kathryn is the latest brave soul to allow a complete stranger to review her college essay publicly. Can we give her a warm...