50 Successful Ivy League Application Essays

  What is one or two of the best introductions you remember? 
What made them so memorable?
A:
 There was one essay that a student wrote about when his father first 
took him for karate lessons. The first sentence was about how he had 
been a complete failure at every other sport. There was another one by 
a girl who wrote about how she was a comic book artist. She was ap-
plying to art school, and some schools don’t consider it to be a serious 
art form. She grabbed me from the very beginning because her passion 
was so clear. The essays that grab me give me some kind of hook in the 
beginning to reel me in.
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