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Generating unique content to find your story
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, 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.

2013-2022 College Essay Student Acceptances

USA:

Adelphi University
American Film Institute
American University (3)
Babson College (4)
Bard College (5)
Barnard College (3)
Bates College (2)
Bentley University (2)
Berklee School of Music
Boston College (4)
Boston University (11)
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University (3)
Brown University (11)
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 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 (3)
Emory University-Oxford
Fordham University (4)
Fordham U LLM Degree
George Washington Univ. (6)
Georgetown University (11)
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 (9)
Northwestern University (7)
Northwestern U LLM Degree
Notre Dame
Oberlin College
University of Oregon
Pace School of Law
Penn State
University of Pennsylvania (3)
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 (6)
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 (2)
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