Race is a Terrible College App Essay Topic

Feeling Pressure to Write About Race? Don’t Do It!   Colleges and universities can no longer use your race as a factor in determining whether to accept you to their schools, since the landmark Supreme Court ruling on June 29th abolished most of Affirmative...

How to Write about Race in the College App Essay

How to Write about Race in your College App Essay Post Affirmative Action   The Supreme Court knocked down Affirmative Action today. This landmark ruling means colleges and universities will no longer be allowed to use race as a factor in who they admit....

How to Use ChatGPT for a College Application Essay

ChatGPT Can’t Write Your Essay for You; But Here are 5 Ways It Can Help You Write Your Own I wrote a previous post about how the new AI bot called ChatGPT would not be able to write your college application essay for you. At least not yet, and possibly never....

Can ChatGPT Write Your College Application Essay?

Sorry, Artificial Intelligence Won’t Save You From the Dreaded College App Essay. Yet. When I first heard about ChatGPT, and how this new artificial intelligence bot could write college essays for students, I thought, “Ugh oh, looks like my no one is going...

My 2022 Essay Primer to Get You Started

Are you stuck in Essay Hell yet? The season is upon us.  Woot woot! Finding a great topic can be challenging. And then turning that into a written piece that sets you apart from other college applicants, and reveals your unique personality and character, even harder....

Exciting Pre-College Conference this Summer in San Diego!

I’m excited to work with students this summer who get to attend the My Pathway to College pre-college experience in sunny San Diego. During the weeklong conference, which will be held on the gorgeous campus at the University of San Diego (the private liberal...