Wolf, you’re not getting it. These kids didn’t get into Harvard because they wrote one good essay–on anything. Google Harvard Reading Procedures Class 2023. Learn.
You made a claim. I disproved it. Stop moving the goalposts.
These are essays that are being held up by Harvard AOs as shining examples of what they want admission essays to look like.
If 11 of 20 essays which Harvard AOs show as “examples of successful essays” use a strategy, you cannot claim that the strategy is a bad strategy. Well, you can, but you would be simply compounding your error.
There really is nothing more to say.
What I have learned is, when I make an error, and that error is pointed out to me, it is better to retract the mistaken claim than to dig in. I don’t always follow that, but I try.
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The OP wrote, “So trust me, whatever you do, do not open your essay with a childhood memory.”
Users provided multiple examples of successful essays with childhood anecdotes. There’s no point in continuing the discussion. Closing.
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