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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, 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 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. |
2013-2021 College Essay Student Acceptances
USA:
American Film Institute American University (2) Babson College Bard College (5) Barnard College (3) Bates College Berklee School of Music Boston College (3) Boston University (7) Bowdoin College Brandeis University (3) Brown University (8) Carleton College (3) Carnegie Mellon UC Berkeley MET Program (3) Chapman University University of Chicago (5) Claremont McKenna Clark University (2) Colby College Colgate University (2) Colorado College U of Colorado Boulder Columbia College Chicago Columbia University (3) Columbia Univ Bachelor of Engineering (3) Columbia Univ Master of Financial Engineering Columbia Univ School of Law Columbia Univ-Sciences Po (4) Cooper Union Cornell Summer HS Program University of Delaware Drexel University (2) Duke University (4) Duke U LLM Degree Emerson College Emory University (3) Emory University-Oxford Fordham University (4) Fordham U LLM Degree George Washington Univ. (5) |
Georgetown University (6)
Georgetown U LLM Degree Georgetown School of Foreign Service Georgia Tech (3) 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) Macalester College Maryland Inst College of Art U Mass University of Miami (4) MICA MIT U Mich Ann Arbor Middlebury College (2) Mount Holyoke (2) The New School (2) New York University (7) NYU Abu Dhabi Engineering NYU NY Engineering NYU Global Studies Program NYU School of Law (2) NYU Stern (2) NYU Tisch School of the Arts North Carolina School of the Arts U of North Carolina Northeastern University (7) Northwestern University (6) Northwestern U LLM Degree Oberlin College University of Oregon University of Pennsylvania (2) U Penn M&T Program (2) University of Pittsburgh Pitzer College Pomona College (3) |
Princeton University (4)
Quinnipiac Reed College (3) U of Rhode Island Rice University University of Richmond RIT Rochester Institute of Tech. Saint Joseph Sarah Lawrence College (2) Seton Hall University Skidmore College (2) Smith College (2) Stanford University (6) Stevens University SUNY Albany SUNY Binghamton (3) SUNY ESF SUNY New Paltz SUNY Purchase (2) Syracuse University (3) Trinity College Tufts University (4) Tulane University (5) UCLA (4) UCLA LLM Degree U Calif Northridge U Calif San Diego (2) Univ of Southern California (6) University of Texas - Austin University of Vermont (6) University of Virginia (2) 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 (2) Yale Singapore High Schools: Boston University Academy Concord Academy Yale Summer High School Program France: HEC EMBA Program Science Po (2) |
UK:
Bath (5) Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Brunel University London (2) Cambridge University (5) Cardiff University City University London Durham (2) East Anglia Edinburgh (2) Glasgow Imperial (3) Imperial Summer High School Programme Kings (8) Leeds Univeristy of Art London School of Economics (5) Oxford University (2) Oxford (Masters degree in Law) Portsmouth University Queen Mary University (3) Royal Holloway (2) Saint Andrews (3) Sheffield SOAS Surrey (2) Teesside UCL (9) UCL Arts & Science Program (2) University of Manchester (2) University of Sussex (2) Warwick (4) York (2) Canada: Concordia McGill (10) University of Toronto (3) U of Toronto Arts and Science Program Europe: University of Amsterdam Bocconi University, Italy (2) Ecole Hospitalière de Lausane ESCP Business School Glion Institute of Higher Learning, Switzerland University College Maastricht, Holland |