by stephen | Sep 11, 2018 | How to Write a Personal Statement
Writing your personal statement is actually one of the easiest steps in the college application process. The key word there, though, is “writing.” Generating the ideas, outline, and flow of the essay is much, much harder. As an example, I recently had a...
by stephen | Jul 30, 2018 | General College Applications Advice
Before you can begin to even think about your college essay topic or what style you’re going to write in, you’ve got to answer a simple yet sometimes difficult question to answer–where to apply for college. The simplest way to accomplish this is to...
by stephen | Jul 16, 2018 | General College Applications Advice
When you look down at a college application and see you have a half-dozen essays to fill out, it’s very easy to think “I’ll just do this essay today, those in a week, and those I can do quickly so I’ll wait until I sent my app out.”...
by stephen | Jul 2, 2018 | College Essay Writing Tips
I recently had a client that had an essay question, “If you could have a contemporary guest speaker come to the university, who would it be and why?” This is a very similar question to another essay prompt, “If you could have dinner with one person...
by stephen | Jun 18, 2018 | College Essay Writing Tips
A common refrain I hear from clients is “I’m worried about this because I’m not a good writer,” in large part based on their English essay grades. While I understand what this is saying, this is equivalent to saying, “I’m not a good...
