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Brody's Guide to the College Admissions Essay
Brody's Guide to the College Admissions Essay is available at bookstores and at online retailers such as Amazon.com. The book was written by a college counselor and writer who has appeared on national television to discuss admissions-related issues, and a dean of law school admissions at a major university. It has been used in high schools and in after-school programs.
For those students who would benefit from professional help with their college admissions essays, we recommend EssayEdge.com, which has been praised by the Washington Post and the New York Times.
VI. Review and Editing
“The first draft of anything is s**t.”
- Ernest Hemingway
We just finished explaining that opening quotations and vulgarity should be avoided. So the fact that we start this short chapter by blatantly violating both rules should get your attention.
Of course Hemingway is exaggerating a little, or at least just expressing his opinion of his own writing. But it’s definitely true that for most writers of any caliber, the first draft of an essay will be substantially worse than the carefully-improved final product.
For some applicants, guiding the admissions essay from the first draft through the version that eventually gets mailed to colleges is actually the hardest part of the process. That’s because given the importance of this task, you’re probably going to want to spend more time reviewing and polishing this essay than you have for anything else you’ve ever written.
Here are the steps:
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