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About:  The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition brings together ambitious high school students from around the world with an interest in writing. This competition is an annual opportunity for students to showcase their talents on a global stage, compete to win exclusive educational opportunities and prizes, and explore different possibilities of a future in writing.

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THE HARVARD CRIMSON GLOBAL ESSAY COMPETITION

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WHAT IS A GLOBAL ESSAY COMPETITION?

The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition provides a platform for young, ambitious high school students to exercise their writing skills in a non-traditional environment. This competition encourages students to challenge themselves and explore different writing styles to ultimately strengthen their writing skills.

What makes The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition different from other competitions?

HCGEC is brought to you by The Harvard Crimson and Crimson Education . These two powerhouses are providing an experience like none other.

Each participant is invited to attend best-in-class workshops, explore careers in writing, and compete for exclusive opportunities and global recognition! Check out the HCGEC 2022 Regional and Global Prizes for more details!

Have you dreamt of careers such as: editor, columnist, reporter, communications specialist, social media manager, or marketing professional? There are so many awesome careers to explore if you enjoy writing.

Come explore with us!

Official website: https://www.essaycomp.org/

2022 Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition with prizes

The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition is an annual opportunity for students to showcase their talents on a global stage, compete to win exclusive educational opportunities and prizes, and explore different possibilities of a future in writing.

The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition provides a platform for young, ambitious high school students to exercise their writing skills in a non-traditional environment. This competition encourages students to challenge themselves and explore different writing styles to ultimately strengthen their writing skills.

Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition 2022 Details

The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition (HCGEC) brings together from around the world ambitious high school students (aged 13 – 18) with a passion for, or interest in, writing.

The competition is hosted completely online, breaking down geographical barriers and providing students from all over the world access to explore and develop their writing interests.

2022 Global Prizes are exceptional and include exclusive internships with The Harvard Crimson, the opportunity to have work published and endorsed by two global educational organizations.

Essay competition info

Participants in an essay competition select a prompt from the options provided to showcase their critical thoughts, creative ideas, and written communication skills.

Each competitor will be permitted to submit one essay before the submission closing date.

Each essay will be marked in accordance with the marking rubric and against other competitors in each region and round. The most impressive submissions qualify in the regional round and go head to head in the global final.

To compete in the global round, participants must go head-to-head with local participants and place in the top 10 of the regional qualifiers.

• Australia & New Zealand.
• Central and South America.
• East, South and Southeast Asia.
• Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Central Asia.
• North America.

Who can enter the competition?

Students must be between the ages of 13-18 and currently enrolled in a secondary or high school at the time of the global competition in January 2022 -OR- have not started university studies yet and is under the age of 19.

Essay Competition Entry fee

• Early Bird Registration Fee: US$7.50 until December 15th.
• Regular Registration Fee: US$15 between December 16th – January 19th

Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition 2022 Prizes

• Published work on the official HCGEC website.
• Exclusive internships with The Harvard Crimson.
• Crimson credit with Crimson Education to help reach individual goals.
• Harvard Merch for every global winner!
• Generous cash prizes.

Competition Application Guide

To register you will need:

• Parent permission for anyone under 18 years of age.
• Includes competition entry and access to participant exclusive workshops & recordings.
• An email that is not a school email address.

more information about essay submission and submission examples follows this link .

Essay Competition Deadline

HCGEC 2022 will run from January through February. The competition features two key rounds, the regional qualifiers held throughout 5 regions, followed by the global finals.

• NOVEMBER 15TH: Early Bird Registrations open.
• 16th: Regular Registrations open.
• 19th: Registrations close.
• 22nd: Start of participant-exclusive workshops.
• 30th: Regional Essay submission deadline.
• 18th: Global Essay submission deadline,
• 23rd: Global Winners announced,

More information following this link.

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You can check the essay competition website following this link .

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The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition 2022

La Le Quynh Anh , Reporter | November 26, 2021

Are you looking for another achievement to list in your resume? Are you an avid writer who is looking for an opportunity to showcase your writing skills? Then, Crimson Global Academy has just the right event for you! 

Recently, there was an email sent to every student at CGA, informing about the Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition (HCGEC) 2022. With the partnership between CGA and the Harvard Crimson, one of the most prestigious international writing competitions for students aged 13 to 18 was created. It not only provides students with a fair chance to compete with other students around the world but also to develop their critical thinking. 

Winning this competition means that you will win a Harvard Crimson Internship along with a Letter of Recommendation. Not to mention, you will be recognized as a top writer as your essay will be published on the official competition’s website, which is endorsed by the Harvard Crimson. You will also get access to exclusive first-class education and career-driven webinars by world professionals in a number of fields. There are also additional prices that could be worth up to as much as US $5000 in cash and another US $5000 in Crimson mentorship credit. 

You will have 2 different categories to choose from: creative and persuasive. The final date to submit your essay for the regional round is on January 30th, 2022. The most excellent 5 participants from each category will then compete in the global finals where they will further develop their essays and compete with each other for the grand prizes that were mentioned above. 

You are probably thinking that you absolutely cannot afford to miss this opportunity, right? Sign up for it right now and get a 50% off of the registration fee, having only to pay US $7.50. Please note that the final deadline for an early bird is on December 15th, 2021. Following that, from December 16th to January 19th, the regular registration fee will cost you US 15$. 

You can sign up for the competition through this link . Attached are also the HCGEC 2022 invitation handbook and a one-page guide that includes everything you need to know about the competition. Welp, see you at the competition then! 

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Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition

The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition provides a platform for young, ambitious high school students to exercise their writing skills in a non-traditional environment.

This competition encourages students to challenge themselves and explore different writing styles to ultimately strengthen their writing skills.

Here’s what you stand to win:

• Gain a head start on your career with an exclusive Harvard Crimson internship and a Letter of Recommendation
• Achieve global recognition as a top writer by having your essay published on the official HCGEC website and endorsed by The Harvard Crimson
• Receive generous cash prizes
• Reach individual goals with Crimson credits by Crimson Education
• Earn Harvard Merch

Registrations close 19 January 2023.

Find out more and register here: https://www.essaycomp.org/

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Why Harvard?

Recently, a friend and I were debating the true value of a Harvard education (no, not the dollar cost). After much competent but inconclusive chin-wagging, I channeled my inner former University President Neil L. Rudenstine, mouthed some digression about cultivating global leaders , and hastened on to other topics. It got me through the evening, but weeks later the question still dogged me. Why attend?

Of course, no essay could really put this puzzle to bed. As I discovered over some weekends perusing the literature, uncertainty about the purpose of a college education tends to multiply the further one pursues the matter. To settle any question as subjective as “What is the meaning of college?” almost demands, in T.S. Eliot’s memorable phrase , “a hundred visions and revisions.”

Still, as my friends from that strange, mostly happy time would attest, I never met an argument I didn’t like. And one as fraught as whether a Harvard education really is top-notch makes especially good grist for a bookish barroom back-and-forth at the Hong Kong restaurant (my measure of a good time). So, without any real hope of a nice, tidy answer, one possible account might go as follows.

In an age of thinning community commitments and pervasive loneliness , a Harvard degree tethers its recipient to a shared past and future through a time-tested transfer of culture between generations. Where this transfer sometimes manifests novel social and cultural uncertainties (W.E.B. Du Bois, Class of 1890, famously lamented “all the irony of my singing ‘Fair Harvard’” as a Black pupil in the College), it also helps to fashion a sense of continuity amid competing research interests, methods, and debates. This sense, ever nourished by a devoted faculty, is the seminal genius of our system, centering a sacred vision of tradition that, in the words of our fair school song, rises calmly “thro’ change and thro’ storm.”

All well and good, you say, but isn’t that story a bit rosy? Well, yes — very. Any undergrad could tell you the ways Harvard has changed since the Puritan guarding University Hall sent his first donation in the 1630s (if only he could see the endowment today!). There’s no more chapel requirement, no Indian College, no Massachusetts Bay Colony. Heck, much about Harvard has changed even since the 1930s — or the 1990s, for that matter. (I challenge all able-bodied undergraduates to swim 100 yards at the Malkin Athletic Center before graduation day.)

True, there have been windows of stability, even of conservative recoil, but I’d be lying if I didn't admit that the academy upon which the Class of ’27, the fourth in our history, is entering is worlds apart from the Harvard of yore.

Why then the pleasant fiction about continuity?

Well, because that was the Harvard I chose to attend, of course! As an undergraduate, I felt drawn to an idea — a myth, if you like — of tradition across the ages. I sought classes on the early Shakespeare plays, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and the masterworks of Renaissance polyphony. I wrote a Crimson column toying with the notion of cultural continuity amid fast political change. I even stuck around my first two years to sing in the graduation choir (yes, I still love a good mawkish crimson Commencement).

That myth hinged in part on solid classroom instruction — anyone who hasn’t taken professor Gordon Teskey’s English 121CG: “Shakespeare after Hamlet” or professor John Stauffer’s English 90FD: “Rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass” is sorely missing out — but also on open minds and a willingness to see all aspects of a Harvard education charitably, even gratefully. In other words, not scoffing at the “section kid” with a genuinely heterodox reading of Shakespeare’s Caliban or a tear in his eye for the sorrowful state of Mariano José de Larra’s decadent Spain.

Some current undergraduates will no doubt be asking how they too can carve out that older vision of academic life, happily invested in a timeless intellectual inheritance.

First, don’t shy away from the greats. Study Shakespeare, Lincoln, the premier novelists, and so on, reading each author charitably to start.

Second, as the former Pusey Minister Jonathan Walton advised, be quick to compliment and slow to criticize. Do not refute ideas you could not reconstruct if needed.

Finally, think about permanence. What from your experience will survive, and what will not? (I doubt, for instance, there will ever be a Christmas in the Yard without the University Choir’s brilliant service, which I encourage all to witness at least once.)

Of course, these are only a small handful of ways to make meaning out of a Harvard degree. For those who disagree with my premise entirely — that college is for cultural transmission and not just acquiring skills or gorging on Harvard University Dining Services “red spiced” chicken — perhaps these tactics will seem less appealing.

Still, I urge my readers to give them a whirl. You may feel at first that you’ve put your faith in a myth (I did anyway). But that feeling will fade. And then you’ll find yourself a recent graduate, head still halfway full of Shakespeare or Marx or Joseph Conrad, wondering whether it’s worth venturing your partial answer to the eternal question – “Why Harvard?” — for whichever undergraduates might happen to lend an ear.

Henry N. Brooks, a former Crimson Opinion columnist, graduated from the College in 2019.

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