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2. Your child doesn’t know what to write his essay about.
I give a lot of free seminars about writing great college essays. I come from a writing background, so the essay is my favorite part of this process. I love being able to spend an hour with a group of students, knowing they’re going to leave feeling more confident and prepared to go off and write their first drafts. But sometimes I get a question I can’t answer: what should I write my essay about? I honestly don’t know; I just met you. But once I’ve spent an hour with a kid, once I’ve read through his responses to our brainstorm questions, I know what he should write his essay about. I can tell by the way his face lights up when he starts describing it, or how I can’t type fast enough to catch all the great phrases he’s using, or how I’ve never heard anyone tell a story quite like that before. Independent counselors know what colleges are looking for in the essay, and how a student should share his story to be a stronger applicant. A good counselor can help you see an exceptional story you didn’t even know was there. Next: Reason #3 - You're not sure which schools are "safety schools" Comments are closed.
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What is the When I Was 17 Project?When I Was 17 is a blog series dedicated to collecting the varied stories of people's career paths, what they envisioned themselves doing when they were teenagers and how that evolved over the course of their lives. I started this project with the goal of illustrating that it's okay not to know exactly what you want to do when you're 17; many successful people didn't, and these are a few of their stories.
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