Admissions Essays

Admit it: admissions essays from the class of 2013

For some of us, it was a crowning achievement, the single piece of writing we’re still most proud of. For others of us, it was juvenile and shameless, 500 words of self-indulgence that are too agonizingly laughable to reread.

By Shai Chester, Evan Burger, Ariella Pultman, and Amanda Gutterman | Sep 20 10:41 pm ET

Admissions essay: Shai Chester

True, my mental image of Dylan did not correlate to the man I had heard in concert, but that did not necessarily make my impression of him meaningless.

By Shai Chester | Sep 20 04:11 pm ET

Admissions essay: Amanda Gutterman

I connect to postmodern heroes in literature because I have always seen myself as one of them.

By Amanda Gutterman | Sep 20 04:08 pm ET

Admissions essay: Ariella Pultman

My Zionist heart had always been distraught over the Neturei Karta, even before I knew that my cousin was affiliated with them.

By Ariella Pultman | Sep 20 04:03 pm ET

Admissions essay: Evan Burger

Put simply, I was forever changed by the concepts elucidated in Walden. I must have heard of the book before, but I never expected what I discovered inside.

By Evan Burger | Sep 20 03:57 pm ET

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