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After writing my Harvard application essay about how I was attracted to America by its vibrant politics and hoped to immigrate and run for office one day, I was surprised to discover that it is even more difficult to apply for permanent residency if one comes here as a student. According to an e-mail written to me by Sharon Ladd, the director of the Harvard International Office (HIO), “it probably isn’t a good idea for a freshman to indicate intentions to stay in the U.S. permanently since one of the grounds for denying...
With the current policies of Harvard and the U.S. government, I will be deported back to Japan after four years of soaking up a world-class education. I will never fulfill the very aspirations that I wrote my application essay on—presumably the grounds on which I was admitted to Harvard. Does this seem bizarre to anyone...
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...take the typical example, “Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually...
Just exactly what the equivocator’s answer has to do with the actual question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never on it. Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes that the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but it must never be definite enough to eliminate any possibilities...