Live Workshop: Finalize Your Admissions Essay

Every Common App essay needs multiple rounds of edits before it’s ready for submission. You’ll learn what admissions officers look for including common personal essay mistakes to avoid and what to consider when cutting for word count.

Plus, students will be able to submit their Common App draft for an anonymous live edit on-screen. The 1-hour live essay workshop class includes:

• 60-minute interactive class discussing student-submitted essay drafts
• Live edit of Common App draft on-screen followed by group discussion
• Individualized suggestions on essay draft for improvement
• 5 most common personal essay mistakes and how to avoid them
• Limited to 6 students for personalized support.

Yelena Shuster is a Columbia University grad with 15+ years of professional writing and editing experience. She’s been known as The Admissions Essay Guru since her senior year of high school, when her personal admissions essay beat 40,000 entries to win the $100,000 Campbell’s Soup Scholarship.

Now, she partners with high schools and communities across the country to help students find their voice in the college application essay. Her students have been accepted to Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Yale, Brown, Williams, Amherst, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and more. Her expert admissions advice has been featured on CNN, Business Insider, Parade.com, and Your Teen magazine.