Last year, several of your peers voluntarily shared their essays so that you could have them as samples this year. If you find these helpful, I would ask that when the time comes you make a point of sharing your own essay so that future New Trier students may benefit.

Names of individual students have been changed, however other proper names--teachers, coaches, universities--have not. As with any workshop material, you should print these out and take editorial notes prior to class. These classroom materials may NOT, under ANY circumstances, be shared with anyone outside of our course. I consider doing so a violation of our academic integrity code. So please--be respectful of your peers--these students' drafts are for your eyes only.