This just in from our friends at International College Counselors: One of the more common supplemental essay questions revolves around a student’s activities. Vanderbilt and Georgetown are just two schools that ask students to elaborate on an activity or experience … Continue reading →
Your #1 choice deferred your application to regular decision… What to do? 1. Try not to despair. No, this isn’t what you were hoping for, but you weren’t denied. The school wants to take a second look and/or needs more … Continue reading →
I generally love reading dialogue, and I also love writing dialogue. The trick to making it sound real and not contrived, I’ve found, is to mess it up. People don’t come to the end of a perfectly composed sentence with … Continue reading →
So, you’ve polished your main essays and right about now you’re buried in the supplemental essays. Prompts for different schools are starting to look uncannily similar, aren’t they? Suddenly you realize that nearly all your applications request an identical essay: … Continue reading →
