(The Atlantic ) By Rose Corteau — Shortly after moving to New York two years ago, I began volunteering as a writing mentor at Minds Matter, a large, multi-city nonprofit that helps prepare underserved high-school students for college. Just a few months earlier, I’d graduated from a liberal-arts college I’d attended after participating in a […]
Read More »(Quartz) By Amy X. Wang| | Take pity on college admissions officers. Of the thousands of gushing essays from eager students that wash across their desks each year, a great number are virtually the same. Per the Universities and College Admissions Service (UCAS), the UK organization that manages applications to British universities, far too many […]
Read More »( Road2College ) By Elizabeth Benedict — Students may shrug and protest, but the summer before senior year is the perfect time to start writing essays for college applications. Writing college application essays is so different from the type of writing students are used to doing for high school classes. These essays are meant to […]
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