College Application Hacked: Part 1. The Essay: How to write a killer personal statement in which no pet dies

Khan, Umair

ISBN 10: 0998927813 / ISBN 13: 9780998927817

Edité par Burns Road Press (edition ), 2017

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• Titre: College Application Hacked: Part 1. The Essay: How to write a killer personal statement in which no pet dies
• Éditeur: Burns Road Press (edition )
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0998927813
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780998927817
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book was written by me for YOU. I applied to and was accepted at Princeton, MIT (twice), Stanford (twice), Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Brown. Yes, I had good grades but so did many others who did not get into these colleges. The difference was how I presented my story in my essays. I wrote this book for you, to help you tell your story.

Over 3 million students will apply to colleges alongside you. The Ivy League Schools alone will review nearly 200,000 applications. Your essay will get 3 minutes. This book will show you how to write a much better essay than you can today. You should read this book if you are:
- A high school junior or senior applying soon to colleges
- A college junior or senior applying to grad school
- Someone wishing to write un-cringeworthy prose

This book will:
- tell you step-by-step how to construct your story and write and refine your personal statement.
- pick apart real essays to show you exact do’s and don'ts. Among the many samples, you will find instances similar to your own style. Reading their critiques will be like having your writing analyzed and improved by a college coach.
- show you several before-and-after’s, NOT just the after’s. It takes you from raw first drafts (good ones and bad ones), through analysis of the writings, to final, polished essays. You get to learn from other people’s mistakes – less painful than learning from yours.

It will help you:
- learn a seven step program to organize and construct your personal statements
- see how you should create your story arc
- encounter the seven deadly stylistic sins to avoid - review real college essays going from first drafts to final, polished statements.
- learn the three things colleges really want
- find out what is the only thing that matters

It will also get rid of your biggest college application fears:
1. You must be a great writer to write a great college essay.
2. Without exceptional grades you are doomed.
3. You need a well-rounded extra-curricular resume to even be considered at good colleges.

À propos de l?auteur

Umair applied to and was accepted at Princeton, MIT (twice), Stanford (twice), Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, and Carnegie Mellon. He received an SB in Math with Computer Science and an SM in Computer Engineering both from MIT. As a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, California, he co-founded SecretBuilders, an educational games startup and Folio3, a software development house. Through the SecretBuilders Summer Program, he has mentored over 120 students on college applications. He has spoken on entrepreneurship at various universities including U.C. Berkeley, Harvard, and MIT. He also counsels students on their career paths. You can reach Umair at ukhan@alum.mit.edu.