by Cara Kalf | Nov 15, 2020 | Cara
Have You Found the End? Has your life story ended? It hasn’t … has it? The topic you choose for your essay might be an event that happened a few years ago. Your life and growth have continued since that story ended, and your essay should acknowledge and...
by Cara Kalf | Oct 30, 2020 | Cara
No Fear: Finishing Strong What’s scarier—a haunted house or a crashed application portal? No question, I know. I’m pretty sure high-school seniors don’t trick-or-treat, but I do know they’re not working on their college applications on Halloween. Despite a November 1...
by Cara Kalf | Oct 15, 2020 | Cara
Making the Decision About Early Decision If you’re still asking yourself whether you should be applying Early Decision at this point in the fall, the answer should probably be NO. If you just breathed a sigh of relief, that tells you everything you need to know. You...
by Cara Kalf | Sep 30, 2020 | Cara
The Application is Trying to Tell You Something The Common Application was supposed to make your application process more streamlined—but even schools that accept the Common App want to put their own unique stamp on your submission. Why? It’s not just to make your...
by Cara Kalf | Sep 15, 2020 | Cara, college application essay, College Essay Examples
The Tortoise and the Hare and the College Application If you started your applications over the summer, you were probably feeling pretty good about yourself. As school got going, you might have taken a page from the hare and decided you could afford a quick “nap”...
