“1个字母”文书凭啥能够让美国名校的争抢？

此前，靠1个字母打动哈佛的文书风靡了内外网，引起了热烈反响！甚至被业内人士评价为“Genius之作”！“1个字母”文书凭啥能够让美国名校们为之争抢？

文书的作者是一位来自马赛诸塞州的18岁女孩，阿比盖尔•麦克（Abigail Mack），她刚经历了2021Fall入学申请。

在这篇“Genius”的文书加持下，她不仅拿到了西北大学、圣母大学、达特茅斯学院和乔治城大学的offer，更是在录取率仅有3.43%的哈佛本科入学申请中，提前收到了哈佛大学在放榜前发来的“Likely Letter”（即将录取通知书）！

结果如下：

哈佛大学 Accepted

西北大学 Accepted

达特茅斯学院 Accepted

圣母大学 Accepted

乔治城大学 Accepted

耶鲁大学 Waitlisted

杜克大学 Waitlisted

普林斯顿大学 Rejected

这篇文章讲述了她母亲因癌症而去世了，以后她与父亲的以后的生活和心理历程。

文书开头，Abigail说因为一个单词“parents”（父母）而开始讨厌字母“S”，这个单词末尾的“S”，彻底改变了她的人生。

Abigail曾有一位父亲与一位母亲组成的“parents”父母，但在癌症夺走母亲的生命后，她的人生就只剩下父亲。

但“parents”里面的“s”，却永远不会消失。

I hate the letter "S." Of the 164,777 words with "S," I only grapple with one. To condemn an entire letter because of its use 0.0006 percent of the time sounds statistically absurd, but that one case changed 100 percent of my life. I used to have two parents, but now I have one, and the "S" in "parents" isn't going anywhere.

"S" follows me. I can't get through a day without being reminded that while my friends went out to dinner with their parents, I ate with my parent. As I write this essay, there is a blue line under the word "parent" telling me to check my grammar; even Grammarly assumes that I should have parents, but cancer doesn't listen to edit suggestions. I won't claim that my situation is as unique as one in 164,777, but it is still an exception to the rule — an outlier. The world isn't meant for this special case.

The world wouldn't abandon "S" because of me, so I tried to abandon "S." I could get away from "S" if I stayed busy: you can't have dinner with your "parent" (thanks again Grammarly) if you are too busy to have family dinner. Any spare time that I had, I filled. I became known as the "busy kid," the one that everyone always asks "how do you have time?" Morning meetings, classes, afternoon meetings, volleyball practice, dance class, rehearsal in Boston, homework, sleep, repeat.

Though my specific schedule has changed over time, the business has not. I couldn't fill the loss that the "S" left in my life, but I could at least make sure I didn't have to think about it. There were so many things in my life. I couldn't control, so I controlled what I could. My schedule. I never succumbed to the stress of overcommitting. I thrived.

It became a challenge to juggle it all, but I'd soon find a rhythm. But rhythm, wasn't what I wanted. Rhythm may not have an "S," but "S" sure liked to come by when I was idle. So, I added another ball, and another, and another. Soon I noticed the same "color" balls kept falling into my hands – theatre, academics, politics. I wanted to come into contact with these more and more, so I further narrowed the scope of my color wheel and increased the range of shades of my primary colors.

Life became easier to juggle, but, for the first time, I didn't add another ball. I found my rhythm and I embraced it. I stopped running away from a single "S" and began chasing a double "S"— paSSion. Passion has given me purpose. I was shackled to “S” as I tried to escape the confines of the traditional familial structure. No matter how far I ran, "S" stayed behind me because I kept looking back. I've finally learnt to move forward instead of away, and it's liberating.

"S" got me moving, but it hasn't kept me going. I wish I could end here, triumphant and basking in my new inspiration, but life is more convoluted. Motivation is double edged sword: it keeps me moving forward, but it also keeps me from having to look back. I want to claim that I showed courage in being able to turn from "S," but I can't.

Motivation is what keeps "S" at bay. I am not perfectly healed, but I am perfect at navigating the best way to heal me. I don't seek out sadness. So "S" must stay on the sidelines, and until I am completely ready, motivation is more than enough for me.

- Abigail Mack，Brockton High School, MA

文书全文，通过自己的遭遇讲述自己的心历路程，凸显申请者从来没有屈服于过度投入所带来的压力，反而蓬勃成长。

有人说是靠“卖惨”博取招生官同情。但如果只是单纯卖惨，只需要写好“脚本”就行了。事实上，招生官更看重的是申请者面对困境的努力和积极面对挑战的心态，与文书相对应的活动，和其他申请材料，相辅相成，才能勾勒出一个完整的申请者形象，这才是招生官动心的真正原因。

怎么样，你能写成这样的文书吗？

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