Higher Education
The Choice on India Ink
Guidance on American college applications for readers in India from The Times’s admissions blog
As part of our effort to pass along authoritative guidance on applying to American colleges to an audience of students and families in India, we have recently posted the second installment in a regular Choice series on The New York Times’s India Ink blog.
It is an essay by Seth Allen, the new vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid at Pomona College in California, about, well, the essay. While some of Mr. Allen’s advice about constructing admissions essays is particular to our readers abroad (the last of his seven tips is “When applying to schools in the United States, don’t try to ‘Americanize’ your application by focusing on your trip to the United States”), most of what he suggests is entirely relevant to American readers.
Stephen Mally for The New York TimesSeth Allen, dean of admissions at Pomona College in CaliforniaCertainly his opening line is a powerful one worth heeding: “The essay just may be the most important aspect of your application to a United States college or university.”
We hope you will give the post a look on India Ink, and leave a comment behind as well.
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