Consolidate Students » Choice http://www.consolidatestudents.com Loan consolidation articles for savings. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:27:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, Second Edition: What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice http://www.consolidatestudents.com/2010/05/03/50-successful-harvard-application-essays-second-edition-what-worked-for-them-can-help-you-get-into-the-college-of-your-choice/ http://www.consolidatestudents.com/2010/05/03/50-successful-harvard-application-essays-second-edition-what-worked-for-them-can-help-you-get-into-the-college-of-your-choice/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 19:25:13 +0000 http://www.consolidatestudents.com/2010/05/03/50-successful-harvard-application-essays-second-edition-what-worked-for-them-can-help-you-get-into-the-college-of-your-choice/

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You’ve been told a million times how selective and random the college process is, how the personal essay is your one chance to speak directly to admissions officers and sway them in your favor.  You have to be entertaining, persuasive, and passionate, while effectively conveying your personality, character, and ideals.  And you only have five hundred words to accomplish this.
 
50 Successful Harvard Application Essays showcases the kinds of conventional and creative approaches that helped their authors get into the nation’s most prestigious college.  From coping with family tragedy to seeing Vietnamese soup as a metaphor for one’s identity, the variety of topics covered in these essays will help you think about how to write about yourself creatively and effectively.
 
Each essay is followed by a brief discussion written by a Harvard Crimson staff writer who analyzes its main strengths and weaknesses.  Through this analysis and our Fifteen Steps to Success, you’ll learn:
 
-How to pick a topic
-How to structure your essay
-How to keep the reader entertained
-How to avoid common pitfalls
The Harvard Crimson is the daily newspaper of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its staff consists of three hundred students, and it is the nation’s oldest continually operating daily newspaper.

You’ve been told a million times how selective and random the college process is, how the personal essay is your one chance to speak directly to admissions officers and sway them in your favor. You have to be entertaining, persuasive, and passionate, while effectively conveying your personality, character, and ideals. And you only have five hundred words to accomplish this.

50 Successful Harvard Application Essays showcases the kinds of conventional and creative approaches that helped the authors get into the nation’s most prestigious college. From coping with family tragedy to seeing Vietnamese soup as a metaphor for one’s identity, the variety of topics covered in these essays will help you think about how to write about yourself creatively and effectively.
 
Each essay is followed by a brief discussion written by a Harvard Crimson staff writer who analyzes its main strengths and weaknesses. Through this analysis and our Fifteen Steps to Success, you’ll learn:
 
-How to pick a topic
-How to structure your essay
-How to keep the reader entertained
-How to avoid common pitfalls

50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, Second Edition: What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice

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With so many qualified applicants, competition for college admissions is fiercer than ever. Now you can put yourself ahead of the pack by making your application flawless!

When applying for college, good grades and high standardized test scores are not always enough to guarantee admission. What sets you apart, argues Michele Hernández, is the way you describe yourself in your application. But how do you present yourself with flair, and highlight all your talents, skills, and passions, in just a few pages?

A former assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth College, Dr. Hernández takes you step-by-step through the entire application process, revealing the details that make or break an applicant. From the multitude of short and longer essays to the myriad of charts, lists, and personal data sections, she offers essential advice, useful anecdotes, and vivid examples. Included are:

• A line-by-line look at the common application
• The truth about the essays, with samples of those that made the grade
• The best way to ask for teacher and guidance counselor recommendations
• When to provide colleges with optional essays and peer evaluations
• The ten common myths and misconceptions of the on-campus interview
• The most meaningful academic subjects, work experience, and extracurricular activities to mention
• Early action versus early decision—the trade offs

With this helpful, savvy book, prospective college students—and their parents and counselors—can now vastly improve their chances of getting into the college of their choice.

“Want to scale the Ivy wall? Michele Hernández gives you the tools to do it. This brisk, no-nonsense book is built on inside dope, and Hernández’s experience allows her to challenge conventional admissions thinking.”
—HARRY BAULD
Author of On Writing the College Application Essay

Acing the College Application: How to Maximize Your Chances for Admission to the College of Your Choice

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Vital information for every college applicant. A former Ivy League admissions officer provides tough and funny advice on coming up with the best essay possible.

On Writing the College Application Essay: The Key to Acceptance and the College of your Choice

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An oligopoly (from the Greek, few sellers) is a market that is dominated by a few large and powerful players. As Steve Hannaford documents with numerous examples, virtually every industry today—from medical equipment to airlines, toy retailing to oil—is trending in this direction, in the greatest movement toward industry consolidation since the turn of the 20th century. Charting the course of this trend around the world, Hannaford examines the motivations behind consolidation resulting from mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, and alliances; how companies exert political pressure to their advantage; and how the actions of the most dominant players—such as Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Viacom, Dell, ExxonMobil, Citigroup, and others—affect the choices we make at the supermarket, the drugs we are prescribed, and the movies we watch.

Everyone who reads the newspapers is aware of the dizzying pace of mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, and alliances, between big companies and small companies in every industry. Such deals, along with the growing social and political clout of the biggest companies, are critical issues for the economy and for our future as consumers.

Charting the course of this trend around the world, Hannaford examines the motivations behind consolidation into corporate empires, how companies exert political pressure to their advantage, and how the actions of the most dominant players, such as Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Viacom, Dell, ExxonMobil, Citigroup, and others, affect the choices we have at the supermarket, the drugs we are prescribed, and the movies we watch. Considering the implications of industry concentration on competition, technological innovation, business management, strategy, consumer behavior, and politics, Hannaford paints a provocative, but ultimately balanced, picture of big business and its impact on society.

Market Domination!: The Impact of Industry Consolidation on Competition, Innovation, and Consumer Choice

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