The Best College Essay Examples

“Do you knit? What sort of a question was that? Did I knit? No. I’d never knitted in my life. Here I was, at the community service center in Lillehammer, Norway as an exchange student being asked if I knit. …

My friend and I sat on her floor one day and pondered our life’s worst possible scenarios. We began with the best and slowly eliminated key factors: dream job, beautiful husband, tropical location, happy smiley children, millions of dollars coming …

Everyone on Earth is different, so everyone is going to have different inspirations. When it comes to me, I aspire to become more of a normal person like him. Because his story hit so close to home for me, it …

For a young person with little experience, music can be a hard concept, especially singing. At the age of nine, I stepped into the field of music. ­Little did I know that it would be life-changing. My story begins in …

Ambition. Motivation. Aspiration. Passion. Lust. Craving. Zeal. Spirit. Vigor. I can keep defining synonyms for ambition for you, but honestly, it’s not worth it. Words cannot EXPLAIN what ambition is. It cannot make you UNDERSTAND. It cannot INSPIRE. So let …

As I walked into a room of three-hundred-fifty people I had never met, I realized how alone I was. I knew nothing about the girl in front of me with frizzy hair and treble clef earrings, or about the boy …

“She can’t see the paper that is in front of her face! She needs help!” exclaimed my mom through the phone. My mom echoed this line many more times throughout the months that followed. Being curious, as always, I inquired …

My experience with being lost was a scary one. I learned my lesson about riding dirt bikes alone. It all started while riding up a trail I had not ridden before. The trail went on top of the continental divide …

Life, associated with nature, likewise takes its course throughout time, and is influenced by the environmental influences that it undergoes. If I could metaphorically compare anything in nature similarly with the life I am living now, I would definitely choose …

Three years ago, I took my very first strokes. While initially the movements felt unnatural, the boat was tippy, and the sport seemed abstract, a sense of ease came upon me as I sat there, in the middle of the …

Most kids grow up with training wheels and either mom or dad holding on to their hand in order to feel a sense of closeness. In my case, I was thrown into the face of reality too early, without those …

Thump, thump, thump continuously all throughout your life. Never stopping, never skipping a beat, until this one moment. I never truly realized how important my heart was to my entire well being until it ceased working to the uttermost perfection. …

The day started off just as any other summer morning. Roosters hooting and the sun peaking through my bedroom blinds. The sound of bacon sizzling in the skillet onside of mom cooking warm grits. Daddy aniously awaiting the hot breakfast, …

Boy meets girl. Girl silently pleads for a ride home. Boy comes to the rescue. They find out they live three blocks away from each other. And then they become friends. This is the story of a senior and a …

“Mom and Dad…I’m gay…” That long pause is the information sinking and spreading like a disease. My parents sit, absorbing what they just heard, not comprehending how hard that was for me to utter. The fact of the matter is, …

“Are you sitting down? Sit down. Linda’s had a brain aneurism rupture. She probably won’t live through the night, but if she does, she will be in surgery tomorrow morning.” This is the short call we got from my mother’s …

This crazy thing they call life. My wild ride started on Friday June 4, 1999. I was born at 12:11pm in Winfield, Kansas. I weighed 6 pounds and 12 ounces and measured 19 inches long.Shortly after being born I was …

A is a powerful letter. It can be a word by itself. Add a scarlet hue and it ostracizes a woman from society. Its shape resembles the great pyramids, the only wonder of the ancient world still standing. And as …

When was the last time you had the opportunity to significantly change or even save a life? If you answered “never,” but had the chance to, would you take the opportunity? There are thousands of lives out there that are …

Standing in front of the mirror one day, I came to the harsh realization that I fell short of the requirements of my dream. The reflection that stared back was of a skinny brown-haired girl who stood a mere five …

My parents have always joked I was a fish in my previous life and I don’t doubt them for one minute. This is because of my love of the water. It is no coincidence that my passion is a sport …

I’m not sure that heaven exists. But sometimes I imagine what would be like if it . In the book by Mitch Albourn, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, each person lives forever in a memory or experience that …

According to the laws of entropy, the universe tends to progress from order to chaos. So, as I stared out of the classroom window in ninth grade (during another logic lecture in math), I wondered for the umpteenth time why …

The point of this essay is for you tolearn about me. However, two typed, double-spaced pages is quite aconfinement. I know what you’re thinking, Who is Dana? Anddon’t worry, I’m not offended because I know there are manywho have no …