College App Coaching

Be it the Common App essay or the personal narrative essay for countless other universities, there are certain critical mistakes you should avoid. I've coached hundreds of students through hundreds of college acceptance essays and I've come up with 11 common mistakes that students make over and over again.

Essay Examples: http://www.populationme.com/college-app-coaching/

Other Helpful Links:
CommonApp.org
UCAS.com

2022 Workshop Part 2: UCAS Continued, followed by Motivational Letters and Personal Statements, UK College applications, UCL, University of Amsterdam, Ivy Leagues, what not do write in college app, how to write a college app essay.

This is a College App Writing Workshop, aimed at international students. It discusses the difference between Common App, supplementals, UCAS, and Letters of Motivation for European universities.

Students often see this step in the application process as another tedious hurdle to get over, no realizing it could mean the difference between acceptance and rejection. Often they copy and paste generic answers into the multitude of applications they fill out. However, taking a few points into consideration and thoughtfully answering each question in an honest and personal way could present a real, rounded candidate to the admissions committee. It can put the student above and beyond candidates who have identical academic CVs.

Visit my site for examples and transcripts of videos: http://www.collegeappessays.com/

Successful College App Supplementals for: Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia
http://www.collegeappessays.com/

The Ivy Leagues, MIT, Caltech, Stanford. Your life is not over if you don't make it into any of these. Silicon Valley companies, Nobel prize winners, astronauts, mega-wealthy entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 CEOs, and even astronauts. They are produced by many universities around the country that you wouldn't expect. And so are happy students. I discuss all of these with numbers, graphs, charts, and common sense in this video. (And please see all the relevant links below.)

Go to https://www.PopulationMe.com for more videos, transcripts, and English lit worksheets.

Top 25 Silicon Valley companies and the main schools they hire from: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/28/the-30-colleges-with-the-most-alums-at-top-tech-companies.html

Best Engineering Schools
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate

Best Computer Science Schools
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings

Medical Schools
Yale info
https://www.shemmassianconsulting.com/blog/does-undergrad-matter-for-med-school
Harvard
https://meded.hms.harvard.edu/admissions-at-a-glance
Johns Hopkins
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/education-programs/md-program/our-students/class-statistics.html

Where most students apply from:
https://www.premedlife.com/uncategorized/colleges-and-universities-that-produce-the-most-applicants-to-med-school-2148/

Fortune 500 CEOs
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/where-the-top-fortune-500-ceos-attended-college

Mega-wealth by university
https://www.wealthx.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/University-Ultra-High-Net-Worth-Alumni-Rankings-2019.pdf

Highest paid median salary after graduation. US News & World Report
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/slideshows/10-national-universities-where-grads-make-highest-starting-salaries?slide=1

Colleges producing the most astronauts
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/slideshows/12-colleges-that-have-produced-the-most-astronauts

Students with the happiest college experience
https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-liberal-arts-colleges/?geoip=true&utm_source=gPPC&utm_campaign=college_rankings_2021&gclid=CjwKCAjw2Jb7BRBHEiwAXTR4jWXGU_47MJrXDIjwqIER6leZotIYeNFOR1tMHoejFI2VStSW6WFj7BoCm30QAvD_BwE

Pomona College https://www.pomona.edu/
Bowdoin College https://www.bowdoin.edu/
Colgate University https://www.colgate.edu/
Davidson College https://www.davidson.edu/
Vassar College https://www.vassar.edu/
Washington and Lee University https://www.wlu.edu/
Bennington College https://www.bennington.edu/

We analyze Ege's successful personal narrative for the common app that helped get him into Columbia and many other prestigious universities.

Essay and analysis downloads at PopulationMe.com (http://www.populationme.com/college-app-coaching/)

Ege's Article in the New York Daily News
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-to-see-the-homeless-photograph-them-20191220-nqgiw6pluvhv7cijzpuzqcatm4-story.html

Ege's photography on his social media (a MUST SEE!)
https://www.instagram.com/egeozguroglu/

It doesn't always take a difficult, philosophical essay to get a student into a great university. this student wrote a touching story of motivating a little girl in a Turkish village to participate in STEM activities.

The essay and my notes can be found here: http://www.populationme.com/college-app-coaching/

The UCAS essay can be intimidating to write, but if you know all the elements that need to be present--and in what order--it can be a breeze. This essay that I analyzed here helped my student gain entrance to many UK universities.

Here's a link to a PDF document of the essay: http://www.populationme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alaras-UCAS-Essay.pdf

Personal narrative that helped this student gain acceptance into Stanford. College application essays can be a challenge but can help boost the chances of getting into your dream university. Whether it's to the Ivy League, a state university, or a small liberal arts college, developing your skills for writing a compelling story is crucial. Find out what got this student accepted into one of America's most elite universities.

Here's a link to this successful college app essays as well as many others.
http://www.populationme.com/college-app-coaching/

Bonus Link

I'll always try to include a bonus link that's somehow related to the topic. Reading Nazli's treatise on time reminded me of Homer the professor's segment in WINGS OF DESIRE, a beautiful movie. I forgot to mention it in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOTCy6OvlZQ

Cliches that students overuse in their personal narratives. Common app essays and general college application essays should not have any of these overused ideas, themes, or subjects in them.

David Foster Wallace on Irony and Postmodernism ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2doZROwdte4

Essay Examples: http://www.populationme.com/college-app-coaching/

Other Helpful Links:
CommonApp.org
UCAS.com