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Essays: What Doesn’t Work

Inside the Yale Admissions Office

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How to Write a Successful Essay

An essay that feels over the sorest, which is a word that I just made up. That's everything on my list. We don't present this as some sort of like secret list of things that will get you denied if you write about any of these things. And again, you want to sound smart in your essays, but we would actually rather that you sound authentic than you sound very smart and sophisticated.

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