College Application Essays
Live, One-on-one Sessions
I work with writers at any stage of their writing process, from selecting a prompt or topic to suggesting final edits and corrections. After discussing what the student wants to work on—topic, length, and due dates—I develop a lesson plan or series of lessons to meet his or her goals or needs.
Sessions are interactive, with a lot of discussion and a variety of real-time writing, revising, and editing activities depending on where the writer needs support. As a student begins a college app essay, we might discuss the prompt, brainstorm ideas, or create an outline. Later, once a student has a draft, we might evaluate it together, identify revision priorities, or edit specific sentences for style, word choice, or correctness.
College App Essay Success Stories
I have coached many seniors as they plan, write, and revise their college application essays. Here are some of the schools that have recently accepted these students:
- Stanford
- Yale
- University of Pennsylvania
- Northwestern
- University of Michigan
- Cornell
- University of Virginia
- Carnegie-Mellon
- Tufts
- University of Wisconsin
- Washington University of St. Louis
- University of Illinois
- Brown University
- Purdue
- University of Texas – Austin
- Boston University
- Notre Dame
- Vanderbilt
- University of Iowa
- Emory
- SMU
- Wake Forest
- NYU
- Rice
- University of Indiana
- Butler
- Tulane
- University of Georgia
- Marquette
- UCLA
- Baylor
- University of Rochester
- Miami (Ohio)
- Iowa State