50 Successful Ivy League Application Essays

Discovered Passion
“After I wrote my essay I thought, wow, I’m definitely not that deep—I 
wrote in a far more passion-filled and emotional tone than I normally think, 
feel, and live my life, but in the end, as I re-read the essay four years later, I 
am confident that the strong and perhaps out of the ordinary tone left a lasting 
impression on those who read it. I learned that I do have the power to create 
strong words and paragraphs, but that I don’t necessarily have to live my life 
in such a passion-filled way at all times.”
—Sarah Langberg, Princeton University