<p>I'm a junior in high school and am just starting to think about college essays. I've found this site tends to be a little secretive (and for good reason) and am just wondering if anyone knows of a website that has good essays available for free that will allow me to get a better idea of what a good essay should look like. Thanks.</p>
<p>**College esssays are about creativity. So limiting yourself to ONLY college essay samples is foolish. Read poetry, inspirational quotes, and my personal favorite: television voiceovers. Seriously, television voiceovers as a source of inspiration = best kept secret out there.</p>
<p>But if you're all bent up about reading college essays, find famous scholarships out there and look at the previous year's winners. Those are typically "solid" essays to look at. Essay books are very hit/miss on their sample qualities, but there ARE great essays in every essay book if you read through enough of them.</p>
<p>Just my .02**</p>
<p>Do what I did-- go to Barnes and nobles or borders and read all of their college admission essay books</p>
<p>you can read sample essays but they will not help you too much. A good essay should come from your own creativity because the successful essays that you want to read might have worked for some colleges but it does not mean that they would work for other schools.</p>
<p>I read beautiful lyrics and poems. I also write good quotes from movies. The essays that worked are too generic for my personal taste. Yummee</p>
<p>radronOmega's advice could probably not be better. Read everything: classics, fiction, encyclopedia's, cereal cartons, everything. Agreed that those scholarships books can offer a baseline but don't do yourself the disservice of arbitrarily limiting yourself to their standards. Most importantly don't try to copy one of their essays.</p>