College Essay Resources for Young Men’s Service League Seattle Thanks to coronavirus, college essays matter more than ever. With the challenges around standardized testing, many colleges have said they won’t be requiring, or even considering, SAT and ACT...
You may be in the middle of dealing with your senior’s college prep list, looking ahead to all the stuff you and your junior will have to handle sooner than you think, or maybe you’re busy putting these (or similar) things off. We know it can be overwhelming—that’s...
Yesterday an article in the New York Times, How to Tell a Story, caught my attention. I’m always interested in that and thought you may be too. The article gave me a new way to think about what we tell our students and parents: know the relationship between the...
Jacob applied to eleven schools and was accepted by all of them. Two schools offered him scholarships awarded in part to the quality of his essay. His first draft, which he wrote on his own, was pretty dull. His second draft, taking his English teacher’s advice to...
You may be surprised that this could be a college essay. There’s no obvious structure, it jumps around, it’s not even clear what it’s about. Yet, it does exactly what it should do. Why? Because you see the author’s mind at play, and see...
