by Cara Kalf | Oct 15, 2021 | Cara, College Application Tips, college essay tips
How To Make Your Essay Longer When you speak with a relative you rarely see, it’s easy to feel like you have nothing to say to them. On the other hand, you can be so long at lunch talking to your best friend that you’re late to your next class—when you just saw them... 
by Cara Kalf | Sep 30, 2021 | Cara, College Application Tips, college essay tips
Trust Your Life Story: Finding the Point of Your Essay Of the many cool experiences Northwestern University afforded me, one of the coolest was the opportunity to serve as assistant stage manager on a traveling children’s theater production. Before, during and... 
by Cara Kalf | Sep 15, 2021 | Cara, College Application Tips
The school year is well underway at this point even for those who didn’t start until Labor Day. (And for those who started in early August, I assume finals are approaching.) If you haven’t yet, it’s time to get serious about your application work. Have you... 
by Cara Kalf | Aug 30, 2021 | Cara, college essay tips
The further away you are, the more we look the same. That sounds like some sort of good news for peaceniks, but what it really is—is super-inconvenient for the high-school senior trying to stand out. Students are often led to believe that standing out in the... 
by Cara Kalf | Aug 15, 2021 | Cara, College Application Tips, College Essay
5 Simple Steps to a Better College Essay With so many prompts to choose from, stories you could tell, and organizational structures you could use, it can feel hard to know whether you’re making the right choices for your best college essay. There are so many aspects,... 
by Cara Kalf | Jul 30, 2021 | Cara, College Admissions, College Application Tips, college coaching
Start Your College Essay While Time Is Still On Your Side “There’s a difference between giving yourself time and space to think of your best ideas and avoiding an important job.” In 2016, writer Adam Grant published an op-ed under the provocative title,...
