Do’s & Don’ts for parents – college entrance essays

Parents can be very supportive and very useful in this process, particularly if your son or daughter has decided to talk about some life changing moment. Now, it’s quite difficult sometimes for teenagers to remember with any great accuracy, what they did or thought...

Most common mistake when approaching US college essay

Don’t underestimate how much time all of this is going to take. And then that leads on to the sort of related question, how many colleges and universities are you going to apply to? And therefore how many essays will you need to write. Some students apply to, in my...

How to plan and then write your college application essay

First of all, have a look at the the essay prompt, the essay title, that you’ve selected from the the list of possibilities. And then ask yourself, what is this essay title actually asking me, because far too many students wander away from the title. And it’s very...

Tips on writing & customising college specific essays

Students need to consider each college essay is going to be a standalone essay and is going to be different. You can’t just think “I’m going to write one essay and send it out to a dozen different colleges”, it doesn’t work that way. Each one needs to be...