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Generating unique content to find your story
Developing your voice on the page
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, the Lycée Français de NY, Horace Mann, Fieldston, Heschel, The Beekman School, Poly Prep, The Calhoun School, Collegiate, The Beacon School, The Bronx High School of Science, The Masters School, Churchill, Hewitt, NYC ischool 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.
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2013-2023 College Essay Student Acceptances
USA:
Adelphi University American Film Institute American University (4) Babson College (4) Bard College (6) Barnard College (3) Bates College (3) Bentley University (2) Berklee School of Music Boston College (4) Boston University (11) Bowdoin College Brandeis University (3) Brown University (11) Caltech Carleton College (3) Carnegie Mellon Chapman University University of Chicago (5) Claremont McKenna Clark University (2) Colby College (2) Colgate University (2) Colorado College U of Colorado Boulder Columbia College Chicago Columbia University (5) Columbia Univ Bachelor of Engineering (3) Columbia Univ (2) Columbia Univ Master of Financial Engineering Columbia Univ School of Law Columbia Univ-Sciences Po (4) Cooper Union Cornell Summer HS Program Cornell University (2) Dartmouth College University of Delaware Drexel University (2) Duke University (5) Duke U LLM Degree Emerson College Emory University (4) Emory University-Oxford Fordham University (4) Fordham U LLM Degree George Washington Univ. (6) |
Georgetown University (12)
Georgetown U LLM Degree Georgetown School of Foreign Service (2) Georgia Tech (4) Goucher College Hamiltion College (2) Harvard Law School Haverford College Hawaii Pacific U of Illinois Urbana (2) Indiana University Iona College Ithaca College Kenyon College (2) Loyola Macalester College U of Maine Maryland Inst College of Art U Mass (2) University of Miami (5) MICA MIT U Mich Ann Arbor (3) Middlebury College (2) Mount Holyoke (2) The New School (2) The New School Master's program New York University (10) NYU Abu Dhabi Engineering NYU NY Engineering NYU Global Studies Program NYU School of Law (2) NYU Stern (3) NYU Tisch School of the Arts North Carolina School of the Arts U of North Carolina (2) Northeastern University (11) Northwestern University (7) Northwestern U LLM Degree Notre Dame Oberlin College University of Oregon Pace School of Law Penn State University of Pennsylvania (4) U Penn M&T Program (2) University of Pittsburgh Pitzer College (2) Pomona College (3) |
Princeton University (4)
Quinnipiac (2) Reed College (3) U of Rhode Island Rice University (2) University of Richmond RIT Rochester Institute of Tech. Saint John's University Saint Joseph University Sarah Lawrence College (2) Seton Hall University Skidmore College (2) Smith College (2) Stanford University (8) Stevens University SUNY Albany SUNY Binghamton (4) SUNY ESF SUNY New Paltz SUNY Purchase (2) SUNY Stonybrook Syracuse University (4) Trinity College Tufts University (7) Tulane University (5) UC Berkeley (2) UC Berkeley MET Program (3) UCLA (7) UCLA LLM Degree U Calif Northridge U Calif San Diego (3) U Calif Santa Barbara Univ of Southern California (7) University of Texas - Austin University of Vermont (6) UVM-Vermont Law School University of Virginia (3) University of Washington Vassar College (2) Villanova University Wash Univ Saint Louis Wellesley College Wesleyan University (8) Williams College (2) Worcester Polytechnic Institute College of William and Mary University of Wisconsin (3) U Wisc Honors Program College of Wooster Yale University (3) Yale Singapore High Schools: Boston University Academy Concord Academy Yale Summer High School Program Asia: U of Science and Technology, Hong Kong |
UK:
Bath (5) Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Brunel University London (2) Cambridge University (5) Cambridge Summer Academy (High School Program) Cardiff University City University London Durham (3) East Anglia Edinburgh (3) Glasgow Imperial (3) Imperial Summer High School Programme Kings (9) Leeds Univeristy of Art Masters in Financial Analysis at London Business School London School of Economics (5) Oxford University (2) Oxford (Masters degree in Law) Portsmouth University Queen Mary University (3) Royal Holloway (2) Saint Andrews (4) Sheffield SOAS Surrey (2) Teesside UCL (10) UCL Arts & Science Program (2) University of Manchester (2) University of Sussex (2) Warwick (4) York (2) Canada: Concordia McGill (11) University of Toronto (4) U of Toronto Arts and Science Program Europe: HEC EMBA Program France Science Po France (2) University of Amsterdam Bocconi University, Italy (3) Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (2) ESCP Business School Glion Institute of Higher Learning, Switzerland University College Maastricht, Holland |