College Essays That Made a Difference, 3rd Edition includes real-life essays written by applicants to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, and more, as well as complete application profiles of over 100 students, including test scores, GPAs, demographic information, and where they got in and where they didn't.

College Essays That Made a Difference, 3rd Edition includes essays submitted to the following schools:

Amherst College

Bard College

Barnard College

Brandeis University

Brown University

Bryn Mawr College

California Institute of Technology

Carleton College

Claremont McKenna College

Columbia University

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Cornell University

Dartmouth College

Davidson College

Duke University

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Georgetown University

Hamilton College

Harvard College

Kenyon College

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Middlebury College

New College of Florida

New York University

Northwestern University

Pomona College

Princeton University

Reed College

Rice University

Smith College

Stanford University

Swarthmore College

Tufts University

University of California– Los Angeles

University of California–San Diego

University of Notre Dame

University of Pennsylvania

Washington & Lee University

Washington University in St. Louis

Wellesley College

Wesleyan University

Whitman College

Williams College

Yale University