Little Things: College Admission Essay Sample

The wind whipped across my face, grabbing the hair I had attempted to coax into a ponytail, pushing it into my mouth, and tangling it around my neck. Water splashed with unrelenting ferocity off the blade spinning desperately in [...]

This essay will explore the theme of identity, focusing on my experience as a Pakistani-Burmese-American. It will delve into the complexities of navigating multiple cultural identities and how I have come to define my own unique [...]

My childhood included everything from waking up to my mom’s dramatic wake up calls in the mornings, eating ice cream from the carton with my siblings, rough-and-tumble play with my father, to family dinners at our Chinese [...]

As the summer days drifted away, our Pokémon adventures gradually transformed into a diverse array of shared experiences and aspirations that defined our tight-knit group of friends. Beyond our common quest to catch 'em all, we [...]

She's untouchable. Unless she gets really upset; that's when tears well up in her eyes. She was born with big eyes. People say that I have big eyes...until they meet her and then they stop saying it to me and start saying it to [...]

If at any given moment there is not at least one child screaming, one dog barking, any variation of an alarm sounding and/or someone "practicing" an instrument they don't actually know how to play, something is awry in my house. [...]