Starting a new series of blogs today called “Essay Dialogues.” Simple concept, people – students, parents, teachers, whomever – talking about the college admissions essay.
Bart and Ian, 17 years old, stalwart young men, sit on a bench in the park. They are dressed in athletic gear. A basketball sits
The final of my twenty five ways to make your college application essay the best writing you’ve ever done could just as well have been
In truth, there are probably a hundred ways to make your college application essay the best writing you’ve ever done. And perhaps next year I’ll
An interesting fact about written material is that everyone has an opinion about it. After all, most people have at some time in their lives
Number Twenty Three of the twenty five ways to make your college application essay the best writing you’ve ever done might seem merely technical, but
There is an old show business adage (attributed at times to both P.T. Barnum and Walt Disney), “Always leave them wanting more.” As it relates
As a tribute to that time in my career when I was writing television soap operas, my previous blog contained a cheesy cliffhanger, stating that
Number twenty of the twenty five ways to make your college application essay the best writing you’ve ever done is often a tough one for
There is no way to avoid the fact that writing the college application essay is a stressful process. Yet students occasionally make it even harder