50 successful Harvard application essays

Acknowledgments
Preface
I. INTRODUCTION: THE ADMISSIONS ESSAY
II. THE SURVIVOR: OVERCOMING CHALLENGES AND ADVERSITY
Scott Levin——"You Speak Too Fast"
Amanda Nguyen——"Its Name Was Wheelie
Ashley Schneider——"Stage Fright"
Natasha Kingshott——"Overcoming the Fear of Failure"
Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya——"My Life"
Olga Zinoveva——"New Kind of Magic"
Charlene Wong——"The Freedom to Be Different"
Adan Acevedo——"The Brooke Ruff'
Sha Jin——"In a Pickle"
MicheUe Quach——"Untitled"
Aditya Balasubramanian——"The Sensitive Itinerant:
Changes, Repercussions, and Dealing with It"

III. ONE AMONG MANY: PRESENTING
A UNIQUE APPLICANT
Chi Zhang——"Simple Sentences"
Jessica Hwang——"Endless Forms Most Beautiful"
Monica Liu——-"The Space Between the Notes"
Aditya Balasubramanian——"Transnationalism Made Flesh"
Daniel Herz-Roiphe——"Harvard Supplement Essay"
Adrienne Lee——"Journeys from the Dress-Up Box"
Marykate Jasper——"When I Was Ten"
Noah Hoch——"Bus Window Revelations"
Michael O'Leary——"Crossing the Rubicon? Child's Play"
Evan Rosenman——"Creativity, Family, and Toilet
Paper: A Journey"
Jillian Goodman——"The Circle Game"
Steven Roachm"Concerto in C Minor"
Andrew Pacis Wong Gonzales——-"Ziggurat"
Molly Kelly——"Toddler Couture"
Alex Kim——"Still Life"
Joe Sullivan——"Untitled"
Robert Thwaits——"CoUege Essay"
Christian Flow——"Headlines, Herodotus and Full-Field Sprints"

IV. STORYTELLER: EXPERIENCES THAT
ILLUMINATE——CHARACTER
Molly Wehlage——"I've Grown Out of It"
Maria Dieci——"The Little Things"
Elizabeth Meller——"Charlie"
Yuqing Meng——-"Music in the Basement"
Jackie Hsieh——"There Were No Tears"
Danielle O'Neil——"Coming Home"
Stephanie McCartney——'—— Beach Game"
Amy Sun——"Beauty in a Potbelly"

V. THROUGH THEIR EYES: FINDING
YOURSELF 1N OTHERS
Joe Sullivan——"Elephant Daddy"
Devon Sherman——-"Running with Four Feet"
Ben Biran——-"Fruifful Collisions"
Joe Masterman——"Drops"
Tyler Logigian——"Minga"
Phillip Zhang——"The Journey"
Giacomo Bagardla——"Gli Strati della Storia (The Layers of History)"
Lisa Yao——"Untitled"
Xi Yu————"Mother"
Meicheng Shi——"Delve!"
Saieed Hasnoo——'—— Ride Through the Field"
Sam Novey——"Untitled"
Edith Chan——"My Mother"