<p>All you Harvard folks, might you post your application essays here? They were, in all likelyhood, the "defining aspect" of your applications. Thanks.</p>
<p>umm, yeah, I doubt anyone wants to have their work plagirized over the internet.</p>
<p>Well, ma'am, know this: my application is already submitted, and I seriously doubt that anyone would be ridiculous enough to plagarize an APPLICATION ESSAY!!!!! I mean, come on!!!!! It's like plagarizing the instructions on the back of a baking soda can! Jeeze!</p>
<p>I just find it interesting to see what kinds of topics caught the admissions officer's collective eye. Plagarism certainly isn't the intent. Instead, let's change this post to posting instead IDEAS that spurred interesting application essays, so we can avoid the idea of plagarism which, again, certainly isn't the intent. Essays are big for me. Reading other people's essays is just a hobby, that's all. I should be a teacher (lol).</p>
<p>Doesn't change the fact that application essays are at times deeply personal, serious, and perhaps tragic.</p>
<p>For my extracurricular essay, I wrote about my involvement in tutoring, and how it ties in to my favorite subject.</p>
<p>For my personal statement, I wrote about a life-threatening illness, and how it has changed me.</p>
<p>Those are the two topics I chose to write about.</p>
<p>people do plagiarize. You can't dish your best work (if it got you into Harvard, I'm assuming its good) on an internet forum of ivy-hopefuls and not expect to be copied.</p>
<p>What I say is veritas, if I may.</p>
<p>I wrote two essays. I wrote both of my essays about the extracurriculars that are really big for me in high school. For the first essay, I wrote about my experience with my school's law academy. I talked a lot about my passion for the law and how I loved mock trial simply because the law and litigation is so fun and exciting for me, as well as interesting. The second essay was about JROTC and how I was chosen to become a leader and achieve high officer ranks in a shorter amount of time than usual and compared to everyone else. I talked about how I was a little meek and introverted freshman year and how JROTC was able to force me so to speak to become a leader and to be more extroverted, especially given that being a wall-flower-type person won't really help you in life, as my Harvard interviewer pointed out.</p>
<p>If you wish to read successful Harvard application essays, The Crimson has published a whole book of them. You can probably order it on-line through The Crimson or The COOP.</p>
<p>SCIPIO--</p>
<p>Did you by any chance read Kurt Vonnegut's "Hocus Pocus?" "Scipio" was the name of the unfortunate university town in the book. That would certainly be funny, seeing as this is a college post!!!!!!!</p>
<p>If you want to read successful Harvard application essays, there are several books with many essays available online, in any store, or in your grocer's freezers.</p>
<p>I always wanted to say that.</p>
<p>My son's essay started with a paragraph of nonsense that resulted from a computer program that put together phrases from sample application essays posted on the Internet. Then he went on to write about while he'd much rather have a computer write his essay, obviously his computer programming skills were not yet up to it and how he'd gotten interested in programming and what he was able to do with it. It was not a particularly personal tell all essay, good for an engineer, but not a brilliant essay. The emphasis was on how his family and school had encouraged him to fly with his interests. (The essay was written for the MIT question about how your environment influenced you.)</p>
<p>My son's primary essay was about his 5th grade math teacher.</p>
<p>His supplemental essay was a piece recollecting (as best he could) the loss of a balloon when he was a toddler. </p>
<p>It's not so much what you write about, but how you write about them.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Did you by any chance read Kurt Vonnegut's "Hocus Pocus?" "Scipio" was the name of the unfortunate university town in the book. That would certainly be funny, seeing as this is a college post!!!!!!!<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>I've read some Vonnegut but not that one. I took the name from ancient Roman history (as also Vonnegut no doubt did). Scipio was a famous Roman general from the 2nd century BC. He is the one who defeated Hannibal.</p>
<p>Scipio Africanus :)</p>
<p>yeh, i doubt that many people will publish Harvard essays, especially if they have a great chance of getting accepted. Go to the library and borrow the one published by the Crimson. I wouldn't want my work plagiarized or fixed by another individual to use for their future application. :p. It's my hard work after all, although, i do help people in my school with grammar on their essays. They go to the counselor if they want thematic advice.</p>
<p>It's not so much what you write about, but how you write about them.</p>
<p>True dat - My D, a H sophomore, wrote her essay about her passion for making sushi.</p>