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  1. JFK’s Harvard application (with essay) and other school records

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  2. Jack Schlossberg reflects on his grandfather on JFK's 100th birthday

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  3. JFK’s Harvard application (with essay) and other school records

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  4. JFK's Very Revealing Harvard Application Essay

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  5. Jack Schlossberg reflects on his grandfather on JFK's 100th birthday

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  6. Jack Schlossberg reflects on his grandfather on JFK's 100th birthday

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  3. JFK got into Harvard in just 5 sentences

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  1. JFK's Very Revealing Harvard Application Essay

    JFK's Very Revealing Harvard Application Essay. At 17 years old, the future president seemed to understand that the value of an elite education is in the status it offers. John F. Kennedy stands ...

  2. JFK's Harvard essay resurfaces online 87 years later

    A 17-year-old John F. Kennedy wrote a five-sentence college admissions essay to Harvard University -- and got in, of course. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

  3. PDF JFK's Very Revealing Harvard Application Essay

    JFK's Very Revealing Harvard Application Essay. John F. Kennedy is one of the most mythologized figures in contemporary American history. At age 17, though, he was just a kid trying to get into college (a kid with a wealthy, famous father, of course). The Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has a digitized version of Kennedy's 1935 Harvard ...

  4. Read JFK's Surprisingly Short Harvard College Application Essay

    JFK's 1935 Harvard University application essay has hit the Internet thanks to the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The scanned document gives us a look at Kennedy's grades, academic ...

  5. Here's The 5-Sentence Personal Essay That Helped JFK Get Into Harvard

    Nov 20, 2013, 10:19 AM PST. Without a doubt, John F. Kennedy is one of Harvard University's most accomplished and impressive graduates. Advertisement. However, the former POTUS was not the best ...

  6. Why Is JFK's Harvard Admissions Essay Going Viral?

    After John F. Kennedy's grandson Jack Kennedy Schlossberg graduated with a dual degree from Harvard, JFK's own Harvard admissions essay went viral.The 35th president of the United States graduated ...

  7. JFK Lazy Harvard Essay Resurfaces After SCOTUS Admissions Ruling

    The Supreme Court ruled to overturn race-based affirmative action on Thursday. After the ruling, many focused on John F. Kennedy's underwhelming 1935 Harvard admission essay. People painted ...

  8. JFK's Harvard Essay

    April 23, 1935. John F. Kennedy. What did JFK do in his essay? He establishes his interest in getting a liberal education, and established Harvard as the school strongest position to deliver this service. He flatters Harvard and differentiates it by saying that it's not "just another college". He states his long held desire to go to Harvard.

  9. John F. Kennedy's Harvard entrance essay resurfaces online 87 years

    John F. Kennedy's college admissions letter to Harvard University has resurfaced on social media some 87 years later, and the Twitterati are hardly impressed with the iconic 35th president of the United States. The note, penned by the young White House hopeful on April 23, 1935, is currently archived at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Museum ...

  10. Here's The 5-Sentence Personal Essay That Helped JFK Get Into Harvard

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  11. Pre-enrollment material, 1935-1936

    Date (s) of Materials. 1 June 1933-28 August 1936. Folder Description. This folder contains items concerning President Kennedy's admission to Harvard University, including applications for the College Entrance Examination Board and admission to Harvard College, character and academic references, and correspondence between the admissions offices ...

  12. My Harvard Application Essay

    The Atlantic has recently published JFK's 1935 Harvard application. It is fascinating to see how the school's application process has evolved in the past 8 decades. Though JFK's essay revealed that social status and personal connection were primarily the keys to Harvard admission, which might still be the case in today's world, I think ...

  13. Analyzing JFK's Successful Harvard Essay

    It's quite clear that applying to college in the 1930s was quite different. JFK's essay today likely wouldn't slide at a less-selective state institution - and definitely wouldn't be accepted at an enviable institution like Harvard. This isn't a reflection of JFK's talents—clearly, he is a deeply intelligent man—but it does ...

  14. JFK's Harvard application (with essay) and other school records

    JFK's Harvard application (with essay) and other school records. The 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy this Friday has prompted an avalanche of coverage about ...

  15. Annals of mediocre writing: JFK's Harvard application

    Kids, do not — repeat, do not — use the essay below as a model for your Stanford or Ivy League entrance application. The following is from the young John F. Kennedy in 1935, responding to the question: "Why do you wish to go to Harvard?". The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education ...

  16. Resume and Essays

    JFK Essay. The Harvard Kennedy School motto, echoing the President for whom the School is named, is "Ask what you can do." Please share with the Admissions Committee your plans to create positive change through your public leadership and service. (500 word limit) MPP Essay.

  17. JFK's Harvard essay resurfaces, to mockery, after Supreme Court strikes

    According to a 1935 essay to Harvard College, John F. Kennedy endeavored to be a "Harvard Man," just like his father. ... The bar for admission to Harvard is now incredibly high — just 3.2 ...

  18. John F Kennedy's "Why Harvard?" Essay : r/ApplyingToCollege

    John F Kennedy's "Why Harvard?" Essay. "The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite ...

  19. Have you ever seen JFK's college essay for Harvard? And his ...

    JFK's college application essay to Harvard has been floating around the Internet for years, but his terrible high school grades have escaped my notice-till now. When I went looking for it tonight, I saw his entire application to Harvard-a photocopy that's in the Kennedy Library archives. And I was surprised by what I discovered!

  20. JFK's Harvard application essay. : r/Presidents

    JFK's Harvard application essay. It's a pretty straightforward nepotism letter lol. "My dad went here, let me in" is generally how people get into Harvard. Legacy make up 5% of applicants but around 30% of admissions. Works for Yale. Take could use an international airport.

  21. JFK's Harvard application essay goes viral on Twitter as his grandson

    John F. Kennedy's college application essay for Harvard University is attracting attention on Twitter nearly 90 years after it was written.

  22. JFK's Harvard Essay was something else : r/ApplyingToCollege

    JFK's Harvard Essay was something else. "The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something ...

  23. Final thesis: Harvard copy

    October 28, 2023 10:46:23 AM EDT. This folder contains an electrostatic copy of the final version of John F. Kennedy's Harvard University senior thesis, Appeasement at Munich: The Inevitable Result of the Slowness of Conversion of the British Democracy from a Disarmament to a Rearmament Policy.

  24. Funding Your Education

    We understand that paying for a Harvard Kennedy School program might be a challenge. The good news is, plenty of funding options are available. We can review the possibilities with you as you begin the application process and help you determine the best choice for your situation. Please see the links below for more details.