Why Pratt: College Admission Essay Sample

Here you find a wild Kirby in her natural habitat. ~ My hair still damp and smelling of chlorine, a product of summer’s first swim, I settle into the armchair’s cool leather embrace. Sipping iced coffee and gazing out the [...]

ASSIGNMENT: Simulate a disaster victim. My home was destroyed by a hurricane. We hurry into a disaster relief shelter set up by the Red Cross. We are handed a care package with a meal and a toothbrush. My mind races as I try to [...]

While most of my friends were deciding how to spend their first Saturday of summer vacation, I was packing up my belongings for a week of hard work that seemed to have little reward. I was headed to Ripon College for the 66th [...]

“Good morning Torrey Pines! It’s a beautiful Monday, 77 degrees and partly cloudy.” My voice echoed throughout the campus and every classroom, as it was my responsibility to do the morning announcements each day in my [...]

I do no know to what extent the actual "services" help the community. I don't know how many sandwiches need to be served or children need to be clothed before we--acting as humans, not as citizens--put any dent in the problems. [...]

Asian people do not discuss mental illness. While “Asian” is a broad term that cannot possibly encompass all the nationalities and ethnicities of the Asian continent, this is a solid fact in the most prominent cultures: China, [...]