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How to Train for the SAT Writing Section 24 Aug 2013 | 09:35 pm
This guest post from the folks at Launch Education Group contains crucial information about how to prepare and write an outstanding essay for the SAT. Just the letters “SAT” can make high school stud...
How To Write the Perfect College Essay–Grab Some Attention 18 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
As you write your college essay, you have to consider your audience. You have to remind yourself that the poor, tired admissions officer who is reading it may have read 50 other essays in the preview...
How To Write The Perfect College Essay–Paint A Picture 16 Aug 2013 | 07:03 pm
A Portrait of King Philip IV of Spain by Velazquez When telling your story on your college admissions essay, you have to paint a picture. Let me explain. Visuals might help. So let’s start by looki...
How to Write the Perfect College Essay–Tell a Good Story 15 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
Nearly all essay prompts ask you to tell a story. They ask you to relate an incident, recount a significant event, or recall an episode that led to some action on your part. These incidents, events,...
How to Write The Perfect College Essay–Consider Your Audience 12 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
Consider your audience No matter what kind of writing you are doing, you must consider for whom you are writing it. Who’s your audience? This is a good question to ask even as you write your high s...
The Cardinal Rule for Writing a Perfect College Essay 9 Aug 2013 | 07:21 pm
Answer the Prompt. That’s right. Pretty simple. Answer the prompt. Colleges and university admissions committees—as well as the members of the Common Application—spend a lot of time crafting the e...
How to Write the Perfect College Essay for the Common Application–Transition to Adulthood 12 Jul 2013 | 06:30 pm
We have been exploring the new essay prompts for the 2013-2014 Common Application. Students will have to craft their college applications around these relatively narrow prompts. The advantage of narro...
How to Write the Perfect College Essay for the Common Application–A Place or Environment 11 Jul 2013 | 06:15 pm
The new college essay prompts for the Common Application are much more narrow than they have been in the past. However, some of the questions are new takes on questions that have sometimes appeared on...
How to Write the Perfect College Essay for the Common Application–Beliefs and Ideas 10 Jul 2013 | 06:49 pm
The new prompts on the Common Application help give form and direction to your college essay. They are relatively specific in focus, and it’s important that as you consider which prompt to answer tha...
How to Write the Perfect College Essay for the Common Application–Writing About Failure 9 Jul 2013 | 04:50 am
It’s the middle of the summer. Wouldn’t a nice, cool, glass of lemonade hit the spot? This year the Common Application is asking students to address one of five new prompts around which to build the...
