Chris GashIn the latest edition of Education Life, The Times’s quarterly supplement, to be published this weekend, Trip Gabriel wonders why the personal essay is so important to admissions officers. The essay is viewed as the one place where a student’s own voice can be heard. In his story, “The Almighty Essay,” Mr. Gabriel writes:
But what if it can’t? What if, like most 17-year-olds, a high school senior sounds wooden or pretentious or thunderously trite when trying to express himself in the first person? Prose in which an author’s voice emerges through layers of perfectly correct sentences is the hardest kind of writing there is. Plenty of professional authors can’t manage it. How reasonable is it to expect of teenagers?
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