College essays about Money- and other "top" essays

[jym626]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/your-money/in-college-essays-about-money-echoes-of-parents-attitudes.html?emc=edit_tnt_20160513&nlid=44040727&tntemail0=y&_r=1

We grown-ups often assume that children are oblivious to our money talk, ignorant of our budget woes and uninterested in how adults make financial decisions. Better to protect them from all that for as long as possible, right?

But the best entries of this year’s crop of college application essays about money prove that they are watching and listening — always — and picking up every little thing by osmosis.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/12/your-money/student-college-essays-about-money.html

Meant to link these earlier- apologies if someone else already has

[wisteria100]

Thanks for posting. Definitely worth a read.
Thought the advice the ex-Brown adcom gave was great in terms of what they look for in an essay

“Some kind of spark,” he said. It needs to be something that isn’t in their transcript or test scores and give admissions officers something to talk about when they’re in the meeting room deciding on that candidate.