College Essays
Generating unique content to find your story
Developing your voice on the page
Developing your voice on the page
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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, Poly Prep, Collegiate, Beacon, 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, ISP and EIP; in Bangalore, India, The Canadian International School. |
2013-2018 College Essay Student Acceptances
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In the 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 In France: HEC EMBA Program |
In the 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) In 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 |