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stack of nearly completed applications waits on
your desk for the final pièce de résistance
- the infamous essay. You've filled the lines
with activities and SAT scores, and your teachers
have mailed off their letters of recommendation.
Those scary essay questions, however, remain blank.
Forget about starting to write -- you don't even
have a clue what to write!
Admissions
officers read thousands of essays each year, and
they know from experience what flies and what
fails. And, choosing an off-the-wall topic won't
necessarily help, say experts like Gwynn Lynch,
who works in the admissions office at University
of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.
"It
seems to be the prevailing wisdom that you need
to choose something immediately memorable [as
a topic]. Unfortunately, that can steer kids in
the wrong direction," says Lynch, the regional
director of Penn's undergraduate admissions. "The
best essay I ever read was about a girl describing
a night at her dinner table."
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