The New York Times reports that high school seniors are writing about money in their college applications with increasing frequency.
According to the Times, one recent University of Michigan application essay focused on how local cutbacks forced high school students to pay money to play team sports, thus prohibiting the student from participating.
Now the Times' 'Your Money' team is encouraging high school seniors to send their money-related application essays to the Times for possible publication.
When offering advice for submissions, the Times' quoted Erica Sanders, managing director of the office of undergraduate admissions at the U-M.
"An essay ought to try to fill in the gaps, to tell us things that we don’t know about you,” she told the Times, adding: “Maybe a parent had to move out of town for work, and the student writes about taking on more responsibility, that it allowed them to take on more leadership and to contribute to their family in a way that they didn’t even know was possible,."
- Read the full article in the New York Times.
Kellie Woodhouse covers higher education for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at kelliewoodhouse@annarbor.com or 734-623-4602 and follow her on twitter.