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Student views own Yale admission file

Most of what I read was pretty nice. One of the two admissions officers called an essay I wrote “a bit cheesy for my tastes,” which turned out to be a huge understatement; the essay was included in my files, and it was so dripping with schmaltz that I couldn’t make it to the end. At one place, one of my readers must have confused me with somebody else, because she made a note in her text box...

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