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November 1st marks the last possible day to submit your early application. Tinkering with your words to that 11:59 PM deadline? Here are some last-minute tips to consider before uploading… Continue reading "Editing Your Application Essays: The Final Checklist"
With a day to the Early Decision and Early Action submission deadline, you may still be putting the final tweaks on your Personal Statement and early school supplementary essays. Have… Continue reading "Editing Your Application Essays: 4 Common Grammatical and Punctuation Errors"
With a day to the Early Decision and Early Action submission deadline, you may still be putting the final tweaks on your Personal Statement and early school supplementary essays. Have… Continue reading "Editing Your Application Essays: Commonly Confused Words"
With under a week remaining to submit Early Decision and Early Action applications, you are likely feverishly compiling various parts of your application, asking yourself, perhaps again and again: Is… Continue reading "6 Steps to a Polished Personal Statement (Plus Free Downloadable Guide)"
One of writing’s great paradoxes is that it sometimes takes several drafts before your work actually resembles your own voice. We often have this romantic idea that writing is a… Continue reading "Writing a Great College Application Essay: The Importance of Voice"
In January, the Common Application announced that the essay prompts for the 2018-2019 admission year will remain unchanged. What does this mean for this fall’s applicants? The Common App continues to value… Continue reading "The Common App Prompts DON’T Matter (or Do They?)"
In a piece published yesterday on the Inside Higher Ed’s blog, John Warner celebrates Yale’s dropping of the SAT/ACT essay requirement. Yale joins Harvard, and a growing number of colleges,… Continue reading "Should colleges drop the SAT/ACT essay test?"
Earlier this year, The New York Times (NYT) put a call-out to current high school students completing their college applications, urging them to submit their college essays. Over the next… Continue reading "Stand out college application essays on work, money, and class"
Whether you are still finalizing an essay for that late Feb. 1 admission deadline, crafting a paper for a class, or braving scholarship applications, you may be asking: How do… Continue reading "5 Essay Writing Tips from the Words of Virginia Woolf"
Knowing how to properly structure an essay often differentiates a weak paper from the strong. Students often think pandering language provides a more personable tone, but compromising intelligence actually weakens… Continue reading "New rules to write well"
