Accepted! 50 successful college admission essays - Gen Tanabe, Tanabe Kelly 2008

What we can teach you about successful admission essays
The almighty admission essay

You may be wondering who we are and what we know about writing successful essays. As the authors of nine books on admission and scholarships including, Get into Any College, Get Free Cash for College and 1001 Ways to Pay for College, we have had the pleasure of meeting thousands of students and admission offi cers. In writing this book, we conducted extensive research and interviews with both students and admission offi cers.

But perhaps more important than this research is the fact that we’ve been in your shoes. When we applied to colleges, we spent countless late nights agonizing over our essays, fi ghting cases of writer’s block and writing and editing draft after draft. Fortunately, through a combination of hard work, helpful editors and a little bit of luck, we were Chapter 1: The Almighty Admission Essay able to write successful essays and were accepted to every college that we applied to including all the Ivy League colleges. You can even read two of our essays in this book.

We wrote this book so that you would not have to endure the same struggles that we did and that the three million other students who apply to college each year face.

The sum total of our experience, research and know-how is contained within these pages. If you follow the writing strategies and learn from the successful essays, you too can write a powerful admission essay that will help you get into the college of your dreams.