Word: essays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe you did not think of decorating your college application with a comic strip, or of writing a poem to fill your personal essay space...
...young woman featured in the book wrote an essay comparing herself to a recipe for cranberry bread. Another applicant imagined that even the most famous writers had difficulty describing themselves in their college essays...
...Laura G. Fisher, former dean of admissions, does not wholeheartedly believe in the off-beat essay. "The most ordinary experience often makes the best essay," she said, "especially when it says something personal about the student...
Only one Harvard student, Eric L. Kaplan '89, made it into the anthology. He submitted "Development of an Idea," a mystifying semiparody of philosophical jargon, to Yale's admissions office. In his essay Kaplan circumlocutiously traces an idea he first had at age 12, which developed into empathy with the Nietzschian comment, "Nobody will guess how you looked in your morning, you sudden sparks and wonders of my solitude." Kaplan closed his essay by appealing to admissions officers, "This essay is a try at letting others guess...
...that essay, Pakaluk writes: "There is, I hold, a direct link between widespread acceptance of the mores of sexual promiscuity and a decline in the liberal arts....And I hold, furthermore, that Harvard, insofar as it takes no step to encourage chastity among its students, adopts a policy that undermines its explicit dedication to liberal learning." He goes on to argue that the University should actively encourage chastity in the student body...