Cliché Essay: “The Sports Essay”

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“Cliché Essays” is a new series of posts reflecting on the stalest admission essay topics we’ve received at Centre. In this post, we review the sports essay, perhaps the most overused topic in the history of admission essays.

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College Essay Retrospect: “I Was So Pretentious”

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That’s the high school version of yours truly in the photo above: younger, thinner, and sporting a pair of regrettable four-inch sideburns. But those sideburns weren’t the only unfortunate product of my senior year. Not too long after this photo was taken I began work on my personal statement–my college essay.

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Don’t Learn a Trade. Learn to Think.

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Tom Friedman is a clever guy, and imaginative. In a recent Op-Ed written for the New York Times, he encourages students to seek out educational opportunities that will make them “untouchable.” But what do those opportunities look like, and how does Centre factor in to them?

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Undress the College

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When so many colleges make pitches that all sound frustratingly similar, it’s difficult to get passed the image to the actual character of the institution and its students. So how does one undress the college of all it’s marketing and see through to the nuances that make each school different?

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The Hogwarts Identity Crisis

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More and more colleges are likening themselves to Hogwarts, the fictional school where Harry Potter and friends foiled “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” over the course of seven books. While the comparison is a bit silly, the real issue is the generic way in which many colleges describe themselves, making it difficult for students to distinguish one school that’s just like Hogwarts from another school that is also just like Hogwarts.

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A One in a Million College

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The following email was sent to President Roush on November 24, 2009 from a parent of a Centre student who lives in Los Angeles, CA. We’re very honored that this father feels so strongly about Centre and wish all of our readers the same satisfaction in their college choice as well.

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