Nine Horrible College Essay Topics: newsweek article

College Essays
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<p>[url=<a href="http://education.newsweek.com/2010/09/12/the-nine-college-essay-mistakes-not-to-make.html%5DThe"&gt;http://education.newsweek.com/2010/09/12/the-nine-college-essay-mistakes-not-to-make.html]The&lt;/a> Nine Most Clich</p>

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<p>Thanks for that one!</p>

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<p>The link doesn’t work, could you find a good one please cause I’m really interested!</p>

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<p>I agree with @bunny2015… The link is not working and I really want to read this!</p>

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<p>Can’t open the link either. But for what it’s worth, I just met with a reader at an Open House and she said the two essays she gets most bored with are the “Why my (insert, Grandma…Mother…Father…Soccer Coach”) is my hero" and the “My moment in the Spotlight”: How I scored the winning goal, touchdown, homerun".</p>

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<p>I found a better link for you guys:
<a href=“http://wowwritingworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Newsweek-Nine-Horrible-College-Essay-Topics.pdf[/url]”>http://wowwritingworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Newsweek-Nine-Horrible-College-Essay-Topics.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>One of my biggest fears is that whoever reads my essays may interpret them the wrong way. Yikes!</p>

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<p>My philosophy is that there’s no bad topics… only bad writing.</p>

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<p>absolutely concur!</p>

<p>there is no bad topics,but bad writings!</p>

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<p>404 error on the first link, but the second one is funny. “All was not lost, though: I suggested he save the essay for when they got into a fight and he needed to apologize.” LMAO!</p>