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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Help DC do a lot of research earlier (for those Why essays for T25).
Review ALL drafts of essays or hire a meticulous essay editor who sees a lot of successful essays and knows what works and what doesn't. [/quote]

+1 on essay review. Look at the first lines of some of these essays - I now want to read them!
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1k3uufe/whats_the_first_line_of_ur_favorite_essay_and/[/quote]

I loved these ones:

"Time stood still when I witnessed a murder" (I then proceed to describe crows arguing over a donut) which got me accepted everywhere I applied, including Duke and UNC!

“I have found my peace, and it is in Acme’s cheapest napkins.” 
Committed to Penn!

“At age seven, I became a prince.” 
My common app essay. Will either be going to Duke, Penn, or Dartmouth. [Pretending to be a prince in my yard when I was a kid and how the pretend kingdoms I made as a child turned into shaping the world around me and using creativity as I did a lot of public policy work in education as a high schooler.]

“At the ripe age of 12, I was set to change the world.
… [skip some sentences] …
Years later, I would be greatly humbled by the discovery that I was behind my time.”
Yale ‘29.

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