Sample College Admission Essay

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Sample College Admission Essay: Influential Person 2

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SAMPLE COLLEGE ADMISSION ESSAY: Two

I keep remembering odd things: the way she loved daffodils, her delight at the antics of our dog, jokes she told at the dinner table, her subtle brand of feminism, the look in her eyes when she talked about my future. I knew about college before I’d ever heard of high school; I was Mom’s second chance at the degree she never had.

Her parents pushed her too much, too hard, too fast, and she always wished she hadn’t let the pressure overwhelm her. She dropped out of college after one semester for marriage and a secretarial job. While she never regretted marrying my father, she always regretted giving up her dream of becoming an accountant. She was determined her eldest daughter would never miss an opportunity, and she missed out on so many herself so I could succeed.

She was the one person I could talk to about anything: politics, dating, parties, failed tests, or nail polish. She was right about so much, so often—much more than I gave her credit for at the time. We never did agree on clothes. She favored the J. Crew look, I kept trying for (and failing at) the neo-sixties style. One year we didn’t buy any new clothes at all in a battle of wills: she refused to buy anything that didn’t “fit me properly” and I refused to wear anything with an alligator on it.