First of all, there is no such thing as a perfect essay topic! What we want you to think about is: What’s a good place to start? It doesn’t matter at this early stage if you’re “getting it right.” You just need something to write...
Many colleges require supplemental essays based on a quotation; Princeton allows students to write about a quotation of their choice. This student did an excellent job of turning a quotation on its head, letting his intelligence and personality shine through....
“My grandmother’s perseverance inspired me as I practiced to make the varsity baseball team (which I finally made and scored the winning run), while on the mission trip to save orphans in Guatemala, that I took because I was so thankful that my twin brother and I both...
How Important is the essay? Assume it’s an important part of the application, unless you know for a fact that the schools you’re applying to don’t care. Your college counselor should have a sense of how important the essays are for each school. Our philosophy: Why...
Do parents or English teachers make good editors and mentors? Maybe. Before we explain that, you need to understand the difference between proofreading and editing. Editing is the process of going from a rough draft to a finished essay; it deals with what you’re...
You want the admissions officer who reads your essay to go home and say wow, I read 75 essays today. I’m sick of high school students, of their summer trips and grandparents and their views on the Civil War and Romeo and Juliet. But there was this one whose essay I...
