This is a copy of 5 sentence personal essay that helped JFK get into Harvard. 

As part of the Harvard application which was only three pages long at the time, each student was asked to give a careful answer to the question “Why do you wish to come to Harvard?”

This is what JFK had to say:

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 to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a “Harvard man” is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.

April 23, 1935
John F. Kennedy

Think he’d get in today?