More from the NYT:
"Given the Your Money team’s long-standing endorsement of raising the financial consciousness of the younger set, we wanted to see these writings for ourselves. So we’re asking high school seniors who are applying for college this year to send us application essays that have anything at all to do with money, working, class, the economy and affluence (or lack thereof).
"We’ll read them all and publish the best on our Bucks personal finance blog.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/your-money/an-invitation-to-high-school-seniors-to-write-about-cash.html?hpw
"Given the Your Money team’s long-standing endorsement of raising the financial consciousness of the younger set, we wanted to see these writings for ourselves. So we’re asking high school seniors who are applying for college this year to send us application essays that have anything at all to do with money, working, class, the economy and affluence (or lack thereof).
"We’ll read them all and publish the best on our Bucks personal finance blog.
"There is more on our editorial criteria and the logistics down below, but if you’re trying to figure out what counts as a money essay, think broadly, as many applicants have in recent years. 'An essay ought to try to fill in the gaps, to tell us things that we don’t know about you,' said Erica Sanders, managing director of the office of undergraduate admissions at the University of Michigan.
Your guidance counselor and teachers who are writing letters of support for your application may not know about or think to write about your family’s financial status, good or bad. '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,' she added, echoing essays she’s read in recent years."
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