Sample Essays

Here are 6 sample essays from Heavenly Essays: 50 College Application Essays That Worked, by Janine Robinson. They are all narrative, slice-of-life essays that used real-life experiences to illustrate points the students wanted to showcase about themselves. Brock...

Sample Essays

Start Your Personal Statement the Right Way Mar 21, 2017   Ready to write your personal statement essay? It can be for your Common Application essay, or other university or college prompts, or transfers, or medical or law school, or even scholarship applications....

Sample Essays from Former Students

The Party By: Hannah Metzler Exton, PA (Submitted for The Common Application) While bringing out the orders for my party of six, I set down a cup of soup in front of one of the women. Virginia glanced down at the clam chowder, and then scowled up at me. “Hannah,...

Sample Essays: “Fast Doesn’t Always Win”

Sample Essays Can Inspire Topic Ideas!   In a previous post, I shared a sample essay from my college application essay writing guide, The Writing Survival Kit. Here’s another original sample essay from the same collection. I believe reading sample essays is...

Sample Essays for College Applications

Sample Essays: The Best Way to Learn to Write Your Own     In my writing guide, The Writing Survival Kit, I share some excellent sample essays for college applications. In this post and future ones, I’m sharing some of them with you. Whether you are...

Sample College Application Essays to Inspire You!

  This is the time of year when my former students drop me emails letting me know where they have been accepted for the fall. I love hearing from them, and am emboldened by how many land in their dream schools. And I usually ask if I can share their essays with...

Score Sample College Application Essays for CHEAP CHEAP!

  To help kick off the college admissions “Season,” I’m offering my new collection of inspiring college application essays–Heavenly Essays–for under a buck. Yup, you can download an ebook copy from this blog, and start reading right...

A Sample College Application Essay from Heavenly Essays

  I thought you might like to read one of the 50 sample college application essays featured in my new book, Heavenly Essays. This is the first one in the book. Like most of the essays in this collection, it was written by a former tutoring student of mine. I will...

Four “Bold” Sample College Admissions Essays

College Application Essays “Meant to Inspire” All Students Showed an “Appetite for Risk”  Earlier this year, a business writer for The New York Times invited students to share their college admissions essays on the topic of money, class,...