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Essays: What Doesn’t Work

Inside the Yale Admissions Office

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Dot, Dot and Dot - Don't Shock Your Admissions Officer

Admissions officer: Bathroom humor, anything related to anything happening in the bathroom, it shouldn't be in your essay. Admissions officer: There's this idea that if you shock your admissions officer, you'll get our attention. You can't shock us. We've seen it all. "We love the fact that we work at a university that draws a really diverse applicant pool," he says.

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