Workshops
The application and essays are your opportunity to show admissions who you are beyond your scores, grades, and activities. To help you tackle these critical components with confidence, we’ve designed 3 one-day workshops: the Main Essay, the Common Application, and Supplemental Essays. Each workshop is available in-person or virtually. Sessions are team-taught by two of our experts, Alison Forbes, M.Ed., and Molly Morrow, MBA, featuring small-group instruction followed by one-on-one conferencing throughout the day.
Writing the Main Essay
Your personal essay not only showcases your writing skills, but also reflects your values and personality. Impactful essays hook the reader, reveal something new about the author, and draw the reader out of their chair. We help students identify their target audience, generate topics, and write focused drafts. The first half of the Main Essay workshop is dedicated to examining successful essays, teaching writing techniques, and selecting topics, while the second half is designed for extended writing time and individual conferencing with each student.
Common Application
Most students apply to nearly all colleges via the Common Application. We will teach you how to take advantage of every single space in this application, including how to maximize the impact of your Activities Page to illustrate how you will contribute to the college’s community in and outside the classroom. Students will complete their entire Common Application during this workshop, with individual support throughout the day.
Supplemental Essays
In this final workshop, we help students decode Supplemental Essay prompts, organize an itemized worklist with personalized deadlines, and highlight key accomplishments and attributes. The first half of this workshop is spent finding and organizing a student’s individual list of supplement essays and teaching students how to write essays that can work with multiple supplemental prompts. The second half is designed to offer writing time and editing assistance to draft the numerous supplemental essays.
