Accepted! 50 Successful College Admission Essays

By Gen Tanabe and Kelly Tanabe

Book Overview

Students will prepare powerful and successful admission essays with the tools provided in this invaluable, newly-updated resource for the college-bound.

Examples of 50 real essays are included, discussing such topics as leadership, personal obstacles, athletics, public service, special talents, and future goals.

The strengths and successes of each example are analyzed, as well as the inspirations of each writer. A comprehensive writing workshop provides tips toward selecting topics, developing stories, editing drafts, and applying finishing touches.

Further examples of 12 unsuccessful essays, a list of 25 easy mistakes to avoid, and new interviews with admissions officers are presented to help would-be entrants avoid costly blunders.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617602019
• ISBN13: 9781617602016
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: SuperCollege
• Length: 224 Pages

Customer Reviews

You can lead a horse to water...

This is a great resource for high school seniors who are applying to college. The "how to" chapters are great, and the actual letters are amazing. The 1,000-year-old problem is, how do you make a teen-ager a)notice, b)motivate themselves to do these things (like writing good essays), or c)care. I've observed through many years, gifted or average, teen-agers are very lazy. They may have good intentions, but waiting until the deadline day or day before is much more the norm. If you order this book for your teen, best read it with him/her and stay involved until that acceptance letter arrives in the mail.

A great college essay-specific resource!

If you want to know how to write a killer essay, this is the book you need. The tips on how to write an essay are indispensable, and they make it easy to see how you can do it, on your own, step by step. The essay examples are helpful because they give you an idea of what's worked for students who got into top colleges. I highly recommend this book--it's an easy read and you'll be much more confident about your essays and your college app as a whole!

Perfect companion when writing your admission essay

As the title says this book shows you how to write a successful admission essay. There are 50+ successful essays inside this book and they are helpfully organized by topic. All of the essays are well-written (no surprise!) and are really inspirational when you are writing your own essay. The other part of the book that is helpful are the interviews with admission officers. They help to put the essay into perspective and don't seem shy about telling us what they are looking for in our essays. I used this book when writing my college admission essays and I was accepted at all of my colleges!