Essay: ‘Brood X Cicadas’ (Hamilton College) As an example on Hamilton's admissions website, Nicholas writes about the cicadas swarming his hometown every 17 years and draws a parallel between ...

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It is an assignment that many high school upperclassmen wish they could skip. Some even dread it. Yet they still have to do it. "This is a tough assignment," Gelb said. "But this is the one place ...