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Essay Launch

Essay Development

Essay Completion

What is it? Find great essay topics.

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Shape all 5 types of college app essays.
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Finish essays in your own voice.

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When is it? Spring Summer Fall
How long is it? 1 hour 3 hours/day 5 days 3 hours
What do I get? 5-7 essay topics Essay map + draft 10-12 stories 5-7 essay drafts Grammar solutions Finished essays
How much? $50 $1500
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    — Mother of senior, Beacon High School, New York, admitted to Bard College, early action

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    — Zach Kwartler (Princeton ’11), Story To College Trainer, Teach for America, Mississippi Delta

  • I found the courage to tell stories that are really my own, stories that I sometimes don’t even tell to my friends

    — Zach Nicol, Groton School, Massachusetts (Northwestern '15)

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    — Senior, LaGuardia Arts High School

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  • When you're reading admission folders, there are students whose essays jump off the page...

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    — Townsend Harris High School, NY, senior

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Essay Launch Camp

Fast-paced introduction to the role of essays in college application essays and interviews:

  • Understand how essays fit with overall Common Application + Supplements
  • Learn 4 tools to fund stories from your own experience
  • Identify your core attributes and defining moments
  • Map and draft one essay

$50 / FREE at partner schools

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Essay Development Camp

Learn the mechanics and write the 5 types of essays needed to complete the Common App + Supplements.

  • Understand how essays fit with overall Common Application + Supplements
  • Learn 4 tools to fund stories from your own experience
  • Identify your core attributes and defining moments
  • Map and draft one essay

$50 / FREE at partner schools

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Essay Completion Camp

Bring essay drafts or notes – or the question that has you stumped – and in 3 hours we’ll teach you tools to:

  • Understand how essays fit with overall Common Application + Supplements
  • Learn 4 tools to fund stories from your own experience
  • Identify your core attributes and defining moments
  • Map and draft one essay

$50 / FREE at partner schools

Register