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Direct linkWarren, James – American Secondary Education, 2013
Recent research on the college application essay has shown that essay prompts are misleading, and that the expectations of admissions officers remain largely implicit. These studies have not, however, examined how essays written by low-income, ethnic minority students are scored by admissions officers. For this study, forty-two seniors at a…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Essays, Urban Schools
