College Essays That Made a Difference, 3rd Edition includes real-life essays written by applicants to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, and more, as well as complete application profiles of over 100 students, including test scores, GPAs, demographic information, and where they got in and where they didn't.

College Essays That Made a Difference, 3rd Edition includes essays submitted to the following schools:

Amherst College
Bard College
Barnard College
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
California Institute of Technology
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Columbia University
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Duke University
Franklin W. Olin College of    Engineering
Georgetown University
Hamilton College
Harvard College
Kenyon College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Middlebury College
New College of Florida
New York University
Northwestern University
Pomona College
Princeton University
Reed College
Rice University
Smith College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Tufts University
University of California–    Los Angeles
University of California–San Diego
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
Washington & Lee University
Washington University in St. Louis
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Whitman College
Williams College
Yale University

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