How Brittany Stinson Wrote Her Costco Essay

A Q&A With The Author of the Viral Costco Essay Last month, Brittany Stinson learned she got into five Ivy League colleges, as well as Stanford and many other top schools. When a newspaper reporter asked her to share her college application essay, Brittany...

Lessons from a Winning Ivy League Essay on Costco

Viral Costco Essay Writer Thanks Essay Hell! Read Brittany Stinson’s College Application Essay That Landed Her in Four Ivies—plus Stanford! I can’t resist the news stories that break this time of year announcing students who get into multiple ivy...

Sample College Application Essays to Inspire You!

  This is the time of year when my former students drop me emails letting me know where they have been accepted for the fall. I love hearing from them, and am emboldened by how many land in their dream schools. And I usually ask if I can share their essays with...

Sample Essays: “Fast Doesn’t Always Win”

Sample Essays Can Inspire Topic Ideas!   In a previous post, I shared a sample essay from my college application essay writing guide, The Writing Survival Kit. Here’s another original sample essay from the same collection. I believe reading sample essays is...

Sample Essays for College Applications

Sample Essays: The Best Way to Learn to Write Your Own     In my writing guide, The Writing Survival Kit, I share some excellent sample essays for college applications. In this post and future ones, I’m sharing some of them with you. Whether you are...

Should You Write About Your Job?

  Colleges Encourage Students to Write About $ and Work in College Application Essays   The New York Times today published the seven college application essays it liked the best for its contest about writing on the topic of money. Most of the winners wrote...