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“What I have found is that it is possible to carry over this integration of voice into the whole of an application so that each of its parts have a wholeness in and of themselves. I do not see them as interlocking pieces of a puzzle. The pieces of a puzzle, taken by themselves, speak very little, and they always await being assembled before they can deliver their message. Rather, I see each piece as a completely genuine marker of a whole whose wholeness is seen and confirmed again and again each time another part of the application is read.”
― Admit One: Writing Your Way into the Best Colleges
― Admit One: Writing Your Way into the Best Colleges
“Instead, I give them examples of good writing by great writers. This strategy goes to a very particular situation we find ourselves in today, for many of our students (even the best among them) actually read very little.”
― Admit One: Writing Your Way into the Best Colleges
― Admit One: Writing Your Way into the Best Colleges
“Every short answer should lead to a long answer. Every parallel narrative in a master narrative must have the effect of underscoring the main narrative and making it more memorable. It gently redirects the reader’s attention back to the key elements in the story, instead of moving the reader off away from them. Many unexpected things can be folded into the narrative in this reverberative way. An applicant who is an accomplished musician can be shown organizing concerts for very sick patients who cannot leave the hospital. An athletically inclined student could organize sports demonstrations. The stories told at the outer orbits of the master narrative do not even have to be academic. They need only contribute in some way to the overall integration of the master narrative’s picture of an applicant open to experience in socially constructive ways.”
― Admit One: Writing Your Way into the Best Colleges
― Admit One: Writing Your Way into the Best Colleges
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