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How to Title a College Essay

by myadmin | October 31, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Too many busy high-school seniors worry about how to title a college essay. You have way more important things to do! Do college essays need titles? There are so few easy answers in the college essay world—it’s nice when one really is easy. Do I need to write a title...

A Letter to Parents with Good Intentions

by myadmin | August 30, 2024 | College Admissions, college essay tips | 0 Comments

Dear Parents of High-School Juniors and Seniors I know you want to help. I know you can’t stand to see your child stressed and anxious, can’t stand to see them wasting time, ruining their chances, and risking their futures! Take a deep breath. Let’s start with,...

Admissions & the ADHD Brain: Don’t Do It Later

by myadmin | July 30, 2024 | College Admissions, college application essay | 0 Comments

One of the top reasons all students procrastinate on writing assignments Admissions & the ADHD Brain —school assignments and college essays—is their resistance to commit to the time. It’s that seductive voice in the back of your head that whispers, “You don’t have...

Admissions & the ADHD Brain: First, We Get Started

by Cara Kalf | July 15, 2024 | College Admissions, college application essay | 0 Comments

The college application process could not encourage procrastination more effectively if that were its explicit design. The deadlines are months and months away, the process is confusing, the number of tasks seems to be constantly expanding, and on the whole—it’s dull....

Chat GPT is Not Going to Save You

by Cara Kalf | June 30, 2024 | college coaching, College Essay | 0 Comments

ChatGPT is not your friend. It did not come to save you from work. When people say, “I know what I want to say, I just don’t know how to say it,” they see ChatGPT as the answer. They tell ChatGPT what they think they want to say, and then ChatGPT “clarifies” it for...

Triggering Your Editor: How to Write Tough Stuff

by Cara Kalf | June 15, 2024 | college application essay, College Application Tips, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Why is it so hard to start your college essay? Why does it suddenly feel like you have absolutely nothing to say? You try to bring up stories—even one!—from your life and draw a complete blank. If so, know that you’re not alone. One very real possibility is that in...

How to End Your College Essay: 12 Strategies To Finish

by Cara Kalf | May 30, 2024 | college application essay, College Essay, writing tips | 0 Comments

End Your College Essay Getting started is the hardest part of any project, and that includes college essays. But once your desire to end your college essay is to be finished overwhelms your inertia and you start getting words on...

But How Do I Start? My Go-To Trick for Writers of All Ages

by myadmin | May 15, 2024 | College Application Tips, college essay tips | 0 Comments

Trick for Writers I’m writing right now with one of my best friends. She has a draft due to her publisher in a week. She has been avoiding it for months. She explains to me what the chapter she is working on is supposed to be about, and as an extension, why she can’t...

Tricks from English Class: The College Essay As Literature

by Cara Kalf | April 30, 2024 | College Essay, College Essay Examples, college essay tips | 0 Comments

You’ve probably already noticed that most of what you’re doing in high-school English is not going to help you write your college essay. Whether it’s a five-paragraph essay or poetry analysis, it’s neither the structure nor the style you need. But that doesn’t mean...

Top Ten Success Resolutions for Striving Students 2024

by myadmin | December 30, 2023 | College Application Tips, college coaching, College Essay | 0 Comments

Are you ready for a fresh start? In two days, you’ll wake to a pile of 366 brand-new days. Of course you didn’t have to wait for the new year to make changes in your life, but now that it’s at your doorstep, perhaps you want to consider ways that you can make 2024...

The Hero’s Journey, or, Why I Do What I Do

by Cara Kalf | March 15, 2020 | Cara | 0 Comments

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How NOT to Write About Coronavirus on Your College Essay

by Cara Kalf | March 31, 2020 | Cara | 0 Comments

Layering

by Cara Kalf | April 15, 2020 | Cara | 0 Comments

Bread Baking as Essay Writing (An Extended Metaphor)

by Cara Kalf | April 30, 2020 | Cara | 0 Comments

Warming Up for the Big Game

by Cara Kalf | May 15, 2020 | Cara | 0 Comments

A Go-Anywhere Bulletin Board for Your College Application Planning

by Cara Kalf | May 30, 2020 | Cara | 0 Comments

How Do I Start My College Essays?

by Cara Kalf | June 15, 2020 | Cara, College Essay, college essay tips | 0 Comments

The Fundamental Attribution Error … And How It Works in Your Favor

by Cara Kalf | June 30, 2020 | Cara | 0 Comments

“Curated Imperfection” and the College Essay

by Cara Kalf | July 15, 2020 | Cara | 0 Comments

What a First Draft Is … and Is Not

by Cara Kalf | July 30, 2020 | Cara | 0 Comments

Get Out of Your Own Way

by Cara Kalf | Aug 30, 2020 | Cara, college application essay, College Essay Examples

When you first begin your essay, you might wonder how you’ll have enough to say. But when you find your story and get into it, you’re going to be surprised how soon you run out of space. (It’s pretty standard for my coaching students to have first drafts of 1200 - 1500 words.) Having too...

Snapshots not Scrapbooks

by Cara Kalf | Aug 15, 2020 | Cara

Have you ever had to watch a slideshow or scroll through a friend’s photos from an entire trip? How long did it take for your eyes to glaze over? Even gorgeous scenery starts to lose its beauty, and the photos blur together, when there are too many at once. This may not be much of a summer...

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