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2,591 Students
Old Chapel, Middlebury, VT 05753
Tiempo de la Familia: My Profound Impact: College Admission Essay Sample
A thousand miles away from home, I sat in a cramped apartment littered with Bruce Springsteen CDs, listening to my Spanish home-stay family talk about their day. Every evening, just before dinner, the four of us would gather for tiempo de la familia (family time)….
The Stage: College Admission Essay Sample
I’ve been a lot of different people in my seventeen years of life. I’ve been a tap dancing mouse chased by shrieking female cats, a 1950s teenager with greased-back hair, a sailor on 24-hour shore-leave in New York City seeking love and a good time,…
The Data That Saves Lives: College Admission Essay Sample
For four dollars, anyone can buy a bag of heroin in a town five minutes from my school. Prescription cousins of heroin, like Oxycontin and Vicodin, have been over-prescribed for decades. But as the war on drugs has progressed, a crackdown on prescription drugs has…
Sticks and Stones: College Admission Essay Sample
When my younger brother, James, was five years old, Jack Nierman bit him while they were playing in our favorite playground. I was sitting atop the monkey bars when I saw it happen. I swung down and pushed Jack away, then dragged my screaming brother…
Peace and Reciprocity: College Admission Essay Sample
I can see myself alone, sitting, squatting really, on the branch of a monstrous sprawling oak tree with dirt under my fingernails and stinging branch-scraped knees. I am out of breath after having climbed to the very top so as to see my neighborhood in…
Full Color: College Admission Essay Sample
I am not a religious person. I cringe at the sound of Christian rock, think Broadway’s The Book of Mormon is shamelessly hilarious, and am often scolded by my elders for flippantly exclaiming “Oh my God!” I find the following of dogmatic religious rules to…
Finding My Faith: College Admission Essay Sample
A year and a day’s journey lay ahead of every fabled knight in search of the ever elusive Holy Grail, and if said knight was deemed worthy to find it, exhaustion would cause him to sleep at the feet of the Grail without ever truly…
Difference and Uncertainty: College Admission Essay Sample
As a child I always felt like I was missing something, as though everyone else was tuned into a common understanding of life to which I was oblivious. I first realized this when, in the third grade, I was sentenced to a fifteen minute “time…
This car climbed Mount Washington: College Admission Essay Sample
At 7:30 am we set off. My father and I wove back and forth over damp rocks, climbed stairs, and slalomed cairns until the first glimpse of our destination — a cell tower — broke through the grey sky. Adrenaline pumping and boots racing at…
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2,591 Students
Old Chapel, Middlebury, VT 05753
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