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All posts tagged

college-essay

November 30, 2020

We Are Unable to Offer You a Place at Yale Because Your Essay Read Like the Closing Narration of a Teen Rom-Com

by Amelia Tait
October 27, 2020

College Application Essay Prompts For the 2020-2021 Cycle

by Eric Shan
November 1, 2018

Samples of College Admissions Essays Freely Available for Applicants to Build Upon

by John Moe
October 10, 2018

My Common App Essay: “Every School Reading This Except Dartmouth Sucks Ass”

by Ben Hayslett
November 6, 2015

Sure, It Would Be Terrible, But Imagine the College Essay You Could Write

by Hannah Murphy
September 19, 2014

A Generic College Paper

by Jon Wu

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May 13, 2022

Ten Possibilities the Applebee’s Waitress Considers Before It Occurs to Her the Women in Booth Fourteen Might Be a Couple with Two Children

by Susan Perabo
November 13, 2018

If People Talked to Other Professionals the Way They Talk to Teachers

by Shannon Reed
May 2, 2022

Welcome to the Middle-Aged Restaurant. Please Stop Complaining

by Wendi Aarons and Denise Schipani
May 2, 2016

I Would Rather Do Anything Else Than Grade Your Final Papers

by Robin Lee Mozer

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