Synopses & Reviews
This college admissions essay guide from NYU professor David Dent is a provocative course in great writing and storytelling to help students be original, stand out from the pack, and get admitted—with insider tips from dozens of interviewed admissions directors.As more colleges become SAT optional, admissions essays are more important than ever. This guide, from an NYU professor who founded a college essay consulting company, teaches students how to find an original topic by writing the “movie scenes” of their life, choose a unique perspective from which to write, and shed the admissions-spurned “five-paragraph thesis” format commonly taught in high schools. With insider tips that have gotten the author’s clients into top schools, this guide will generate essays that rise to the top of the admission director’s pile.
About the Author
DAVID J. DENT is the founder of college essay consulting service Write for the Future and an award-winning professor of journalism and social and cultural analysis at New York University. His articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Playboy, the Washington Post, Details, Salon, Essence, and many other publications.