For some of us, it was a crowning achievement, the single piece of writing we’re still most proud of. For others of us, it was juvenile and shameless, 500 words of self-indulgence that are too agonizingly laughable to reread. Regardless, the experience unites us all. It’s something every single one of us wrote, whether we want to admit it or not. “It” is the Columbia or Barnard admissions essay, the magic document that convinced the powers that be to let us past the gates.
Today, Spectator Opinion features the application essays of four first-years. The essays appear in the form they were submitted—Spectator has not edited them.
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