Meet Abigail Mack, an 18-year-old high school senior from Massachusetts, whose heartfelt essay has tugged at the heartstrings of many. Not only has it touched many people online, it also got Abigail a place in the 2025 class at Harvard University. The odds looked impossible at first since the prestigious university just announced its lowest-ever acceptance rate, 1,968 out of 57,435 first-year applicants, which made it less than 4%.
Abigail has shared her Harvard entry-winning essay on TikTok where it immediately went viral, amassing 1.5M views just for part 1. “The common app essay that got me into Harvard was about the letter ‘S,’” she said, referring to the word “parents” in plural and the subtle spelling difference Grammarly made when adding “S” to its singular form.
“I used to have two parents, but now I have one, and the ‘S’ in ‘parents’ isn’t going anywhere,” Abigail said about losing her mom to cancer. See her powerful letter in full right below that tells a story of a teen navigating through the greatest loss of her life and accomplishing the seemingly impossible on the way.
18-year-old Abigail’s common app essay, a powerful metaphor of going through the loss of a parent, has earned her a place at Harvard University
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The high school senior shared her powerful common app essay in the series of now-viral TikTok videos
@a_vmackMy Harvard Common App Essay introduction ##harvard ##grammarly ##IFeelWeightless ##ChipsGotTalent ##fyp ##college ##commonapp ##xyzbca ##loss ##s♬ original sound – Abigail Mack
@a_vmack♬ original sound – Abigail Mack
@a_vmack♬ original sound – Abigail Mack
@a_vmack♬ original sound – Abigail Mack
Incredibly, in the most competitive admission year at Harvard, Abigail was offered a place
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Image credits: a_vmack
@a_vmackI didn’t have a voice for a week after this #harvard #college #accepted #fyp #foryou #xyzbca #MakeMomEpic♬ original sound – Abigail Mack
Image credits: abigail_vmack
And people praised Abigail for her inspirational essay that got her into Harvard
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