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Generating unique content to find your story
Developing your voice on the page

             Platitudinous droning, however polished, will not get you into the college of your choice. University admissions officers want to know who you are and how you think, not read your affirmation that "music is the universal language." Finding your own voice and unique content for your essay will not only help your application rise to the top, it will improve your writing overall. Explore personal anecdotes, moral dilemmas and world issues, then dig deeper to find your best topic. Cathy coaches and edits Common App and supplement essays as well as UK Personal Statements, working in person or via email.  Her students attend schools on three continents: In NY, Horace Mann, Fieldston, Heschel, The Beekman School, Poly Prep, The Calhoun School, Collegiate, The Beacon School, The Bronx High School of Science, Churchill, Hewitt and LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts; in CT, Hotchkiss: in DC, the Edmund Burke School; in New Hampshire, Philips Exeter; in Berlin, JFK High School; in Athens, IB students; in Paris, Massillon, Ecole Jeannine Manuel, Ecole Alsacienne, Camille Sée, SIS, ASP, ISP and EIP; in Bangalore, India, The Canadian International School.

2013-2018 College Essay Student Acceptances

USA:

American University
Babson College
Bard College (4)
Barnard College (2)
Berklee School of Music
Boston College
Boston University (4)
Brandeis University (3)
Brown University (7)
Carleton College (3)
Carnegie Mellon
UC Berkeley MET Program (2)
Chapman University
University of Chicago (3)
Clark University (2)
Colgate University
Colorado College
U of Colorado Boulder
Columbia College Chicago
Columbia University
Columbia Univ Bachelor of Engineering (2)
Columbia Univ Master of Financial Engineering
Columbia Univ School of Law
Columbia Univ-Sciences Po (3)
Cornell Summer HS Program
Drexel University (2)
Duke University (3)
Duke U LLM Degree
Emory University
Fordham University (2)
Fordham U LLM Degree
George Washington Univ. (2)
Georgetown University (2)
Georgetown U LLM Degree
Georgetown School of Foreign Service
Georgia Tech (2)
Goucher College
Harvard Law School
Haverford College
Hawaii Pacific
U of Illinois Urbana (2)
Indiana University
Ithaca College
Kenyon College
Macalester College
Maryland Inst College of Art
U Mass
University of Miami (2)
MICA
U Mich Ann Arbor
Middlebury College (2)
Mount Holyoke (2)
The New School (2)
New York University (3)
NYU Engineering
NYU Abu Dhabi (Engineering)
NYU School of Law (2)
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
North Carolina School of the Arts
Northeastern University (3)
Northwestern University (3)
Northwestern U LLM Degree
Oberlin College
University of Pennsylvania (2)
U Penn M&T Program
University of Pittsburgh
Pomona College (2)
Princeton University (2)
Quinnipiac
Reed College (3)
U of Rhode Island
Rice University
University of Richmond
RIT
Rochester Institute of Tech.
Saint Joseph
Sarah Lawrence College (2)
Smith College (2)
Stanford University (3)
SUNY Albany
SUNY Binghamton
SUNY New Paltz
SUNY Purchase
Syracuse University
Trinity College
Tufts University (2)
Tulane University (4)
UCLA
UCLA LLM Degree
U Calif Northridge
U Calif San Diego
Univ of Southern California (3)
University of Vermont (4)
University of Virginia (UVA)
University of Washington
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University (7)
College of William and Mary
University of Wisconsin (2)
U Wisc Honors Program
Yale University (2)
Yale Singapore

High Schools:

Boston University Academy
Concord Academy
Yale Summer High School Program

France:

HEC EMBA Program
 UK:

Bath (5)
Birmingham
Bournemouth
Brunel University London
Cambridge University (4)
Cardiff University
City University London
East Anglia
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Imperial (3)
Kings (5)
London School of Economics (5)
Oxford University (2)
Oxford (Masters degree in Law)
Portsmouth University
Royal Holloway (2)
Saint Andrews (2)
Sheffield
Surrey (2)
Teesside
UCL (6)
University of Manchester (2)
University of Sussex (2)
Warwick (2)
York (2)

Canada:

Concordia
McGill (4)
University of Toronto
U of Toronto Arts and Science Program

Europe:

University of Amsterdam
Bocconi, Italy
Ecole Hospitalière de Lausane
Glion, Switzerland