10 Things You Gotta Know about College Application EssaysSparkNotes 10 Things You Gotta Know books are intended for high school students in the process of applying to college. Pointed, thorough, and concise, these subject-specific books provide exactly the information students need to know in exactly the right amount of space. Each book is filled with lists, sidebars, quick tips, hints, and quotations to provide quickly digestible chunks of information. |
Common terms and phrases
adjective admissions committee admissions officers Associate Dean better blah Brad Ward brainstorming Bucknell University challenge chance Chapter Che Guevara choose classical economics clause Colgate University college application essay comma Correct creative Cuba Dean of Admissions describe Director of Admissions E. B. White Eric Furda Ernest Hemingway errors essay prompt everything example experience favorite feel focus following sentence Gary Ross Gotta Know grammar Guevara high school ideas important Incorrect interesting learned look Margret Korzus means Meghan Cadwallader mistake narrative nouns paragraph past tense personal essay Phillip Lopate phrase plural pronoun question read your essay reader Richard DiFeliciantonio rough draft salsa dance scary movie singular someone sound specific started story sure Susquehanna University talking tell there's thesis statement thoughts topic sentence University of Denver Ursinus College vary your sentence verb voice What's words Wordy worry writing