The Columbia essay controversy is already dying down, but one response to the leak of 70 recently accepted students’ self-posted was particularly notable. A few days following the internet ambush of the public Google drive that housed these winning admissions scripts, Noah Samotin, one of the Class of ’17 contributors, published a piece in teen […]
Trust us, we know it’s hard: we love the internet just as much as you do. Disconnecting yourself from that wi-fi connection can feel as unnatural as swimming fully clothed or spending Saturday night at home watching a Lifetime movie with your parents. Still, if you allow yourself to work internet-free for an hour or […]
Long before the Internet provided a platform for the mass critique of a seventeen-year-old applicant’s painstakingly polished prose, writing the personal statement has been a process fraught with tension and self-doubt. But as several new additions to Columbia University’s class of 2017 recently discovered, even after your essay secures your admission to the school of […]
Have you ever kept a journal or a diary? It might be time to pick up those collections of private thoughts, wince through your pre-teen love poems, and give it a good read. So much happens to us throughout our adolescence, it is easy to forget the small events that impacted our goals, motivations and […]
The New York Times’ Learning Network recently published an exercise asking teachers to lead their high school students through exploration of and practice for the new common application essay prompts. In addition to encouraging directed free writes, the activity encourages the use of columns from The Times as models for content, and The Choice Blog […]
Welcome to College Essay Advisors, otherwise known as CEA. Our college essay experts have been working with students for over a decade to help them personalize, polish and perfect the personal statement. We know the college admissions essay is a crucial tool in boosting admissions rates for students of all abilities and have worked with […]
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