Ivy College Essay

MAY 15, 2023

Whether you’re seeking inspiration, ideas, or just practical tips, the following books will guide you toward creating a great essay that will captures the attention of admissions officers at all the top schools. Gain valuable insights into the application process at Stanford University with this collection of fifty successful essays.

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Anna Ivey Consulting

JULY 31, 2023

Create Your Essay Writing Map Now that the Common App is open for the coming application cycle, it’s time to work on your Writing Map! Yes, one more thing before you start writing. Analyze your Writing Map to identify where you can use one piece of writing for multiple applications.

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StandOut College Prep

APRIL 8, 2023

Plus, many fairs offer workshops and seminars on topics such as financial aid, essay writing, and college admissions. These sessions may cover topics such as financial aid, essay writing, and campus life. Be sure to check the schedule beforehand and plan which sessions you want to attend.

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University Gurus

AUGUST 17, 2023

Schedule a complimentary consultation to gain valuable insights into your admissions strategy and essay writing. As you embark on this pivotal year, remember that success is within reach. We’re here to support you every step of the way. Here’s to a remarkable senior year ahead!

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Essay Hell

JULY 5, 2020

FREE Summer Essay Writing Webinars! To do my small part to try to ease the financial strain due to the current pandemic, I will be offering FREE webinars this summer to help students get a head start on their college application essays. Participants Can Get My Companion Online Essay Writing Bootcamp Course for Only $20!

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Not So Common Application

MAY 11, 2017

Some colleges force you to be creative in the essay writing process, perhaps to see if there is really a human being behind that stellar. The post Creativity with College Essay Questions appeared first on Not So Common Application.

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Essay Hell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

She studied the best essay writers , analyzed the structure of successful essays and even attended workshops on the subject. By the time she was finished , Jan ine had become an expert on college application essay writing.

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DC College Counseling

OCTOBER 26, 2022

We strongly encourage students to make a list, or even better yet, a spreadsheet to manage supplemental essays. Doing so will help applicants begin to strategize the essay writing process and execute a plan efficiently. Pro tip: Confirm the number and nature of supplemental essays for each school.

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Humbach Education Consulting

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Students are encouraged to write about themselves in a meaningful, intimate, and vulnerable way. The essay writing bit is just one of many tasks high school students must complete to apply to college. No easy task for a 17-year-old. In fact, I would argue this exercise would make most adults shudder with discomfort.

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CTK College Coach

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Writing the personal essay To be ready to apply to all schools, a student should have requested letters of recommendation, developed a thoughtful college list, and written the personal essay. If your student is still working on the personal essay, here is our best guidance on writing it.

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

I recommend that you come up with three solid lessons for this essay. Writing About Failure: Summary Writing about failure can be difficult. And when writing about failure, the fear is that the essay will come off as too negative, too self-critical. Sometimes we learn things from failure immediately.

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Revolution Tutors

JUNE 7, 2022

That’s called a Why Essay. See this blog for more details on how to write the Why Essay. Essay writing is the aspect of the college application process that takes the most time. Applicants who get a head start on essay writing save a lot of headache once the school year starts up!

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Excelsior Admissions Consulting

JUNE 30, 2023

Complete the Activities List Before Writing Your Personal Essay Writing the Activities List is a great first step to completing the Common App. It will also show you what admissions officers will know about you before they read your personal essay (and college-specific supplemental essays).

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Essay Hell

MAY 16, 2019

I did some soul-searching about my own role as an essay writing coach in this crazy college admissions industry. I’m still offering in-person and online essay-writing training workshops to groups of teachers, counselors and students. Disgusting. (In And I believe they can be equally effective and helpful.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 6, 2023

You might also consider installing apps like Freedom or Cold Turkey to block distracting websites and apps during your essay writing time. Freewriting is Your Friend We always encourage our students to simply start writing without worrying about structure or grammar.

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Top Tier Admissions

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While it’s tempting to envision yourself writing a perfect college essay in one go, the best essays require countless drafts before they achieve their final state. I often encourage students to think of writing an essay like creating a painting.

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College Essay Guy

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

UCLA SAT Writing Score Policy On the University of California Los Angeles website, you can find UCLA’s writing score policy : “ UC no longer collects the essay/writing scores for the SAT/ACT tests. If you are offered admission, you can submit your official essay/writing scores to your campus of choice.

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Essay Hell

JULY 28, 2022

If you want a more thorough step-by-step guide, buy my book, Escape Essay Hell , or my online essay writing bootcamp course. If you want to see how a whole bunch of students like yourself turned their problems into awesome essays, read some sample essays. Here are more excellent sample essays.

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Berkeley² Academy

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process can be very similar to the college application process and is great practice, especially for essay writing. Start by finishing and submitting your summer program applications.

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Solomon Admissions

JANUARY 26, 2023

These deadlines, or what is due, include all necessary components of the college application to be reviewed for admission: the application itself (information and writing), transcript/s, letter/s of recommendation, and a résumé and standardized test scores, where applicable. Regardless of the deadline type or timing, plan ahead.

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DC College Counseling

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Memoir and Personal Essay: Write About Yourself (Wesleyan University) Wesleyan University is ditching the boring, five-paragraph essay in favor of something much more personal- the memoir! Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics (Berklee) Students who aren’t thrilled about essay writing might want to consider this songwriting course.

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Solomon Admissions

MAY 25, 2023

The college application season (September-January) can be a stressful time as seniors are juggling classes, essay writing, testing, and asking for recommendation letters. A big part of this stress is meeting each of your college's strict deadlines in the middle of midterms and finals.

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Top Tier Admissions

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Expert tutors can provide specialized guidance for managing the logistics of college applications, essay writing, and interview preparation, working alongside our Senior Private Counselors to offer comprehensive support and strategic planning, customized to each student’s needs and challenges.

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Caltech Admissions

AUGUST 23, 2022

College essay-writing can be a process of self-discovery. Caltech specific tips: Don’t be afraid to write about a non-academic experience: My essays at Caltech covered a wide range of topics from tennis, my experiences growing up with a single mom, to how I cut up diapers for a high school project.

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Koodoos Learning

MAY 27, 2020

In your essay, write about the specific parts of the course that excite you. If you hop over to Google and copy in a course title, course code, and university name, sometimes you’ll get lucky and pull up a PDF version of a previous syllabus. Admissions officers don’t want a laundry list of courses to show you’ve done your research.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 10, 2023

One you have your community, story, and traits locked down, you should write 1-2 vignettes that could be used in your essay to highlight a particular moment or feeling. Once you have one or two vignettes, it’s a matter of stringing them together to form a cohesive essay. It can end at the end, or the beginning.

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Ivy Central

APRIL 18, 2023

Writing the Future: This course investigates how writers use dystopia and science fiction to not only explore possibilities for the future but to comment on our present society. Students analyze complex text and develop their essay writing skills.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 3, 2023

No matter what it is you want to focus on, though, what you need to actually write about is your personal experience of music. Yes, you could fill 650 words describing a Taylor Swift album and those words would be called an essay, but that wouldn’t be an acceptance-winning college essay.

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Berkeley² Academy

DECEMBER 17, 2021

With the long essays and the various short answers required by the colleges, the final step is a detailed check of the writing for clarity and style. Please don’t hesitate to contact our offices to set up an appointment to go over essay writing or anything else as you finalize applications for the Regular Decision deadline.

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SSA Online College Prep

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Socratic Summer Academy offers SAT tutoring and essay writing tutoring to help you improve the strength of your application, as well as more general college counseling for the process as a whole! Even with your knowledge about the role of GPAs, the college admissions process can be a very confusing and stressful time.

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DC College Counseling

MARCH 1, 2023

However, if you feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure about how to approach a specific essay, seeking assistance can be beneficial. You can seek help from a tutor, a writing center, or even an online essay writing service.

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The Koppelman Group

JANUARY 12, 2024

Write a Great Essay Writing a great common app essay (and supplement) is vital for applying to Brown. Not only do they call the application essay “very important,” but it is also a time to showcase your Personal Qualities/Characteristics. They don’t even track average accepted GPA.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 12, 2023

That’s something readers connect to, and it means that these make for some of the most compelling family story-focused essays. Writing about family makes sense. Your essay needs to be about you, not your family. A Complicated Family Story Most stories aren’t unhappy or happy — they are complicated.

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, those are not all great options for essay writing. The Elephant in The Room – the “why” behind your transfer. We know there are a lot of reasons, all extremely valid, for leaving your current school.

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 3, 2023

(Sorry, still trying the hype method) Most schools toss around variations of the same two questions: the community essay and the why essay. Some schools have some curveball questions, but for the most part, you’ll be able to pull content from your already-written essays to make the essay-writing process easier.

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Top Tier Admissions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

They launched this program live in New York City and Los Angeles with a team of admissions officers and writing experts.

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Anna Ivey Consulting

JUNE 5, 2023

Making Decisions – Finalizing the List and Identifying Early Options: 35% of your time Finalize your list of roughly 12 colleges where you intend to apply; have Why College X essays ready for each (we’ll have a post about those); and research what early application options are available.

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