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2023-2024
Tell Your Story: Crafting Great College Admissions Essays
Your college essay is an important part of the entire package you will submit to colleges to give a sense of who you are and what you might contribute to a campus community. It’s an opportunity for you to tell your story in your own words. What inspires you? What drives you? You may be asked to write multiple essays, including a Personal Statement and Supplemental Essays. Let’s dig in with key guidance, resources, helpful terms, and advice to parents.
Your college essay is an important part of the entire package you will submit to colleges to give a sense of who you are and what you might contribute to a campus community. It’s an opportunity for you to tell your story in your own words. What inspires you? What drives you? You may be asked to write multiple essays, including a Personal Statement and Supplemental Essays. Let’s dig in with key guidance, resources, helpful terms, and advice to parents.
Tell Your Story: Crafting Great College Admissions Essays
Your college essay is an important part of the entire package you will submit to colleges to give a sense of who you are and what you might contribute to a campus community. It’s an opportunity for you to tell your story in your own words. What inspires you? What drives you? You may be asked to write multiple essays, including a Personal Statement and Supplemental Essays. Let’s dig in with key guidance, resources, helpful terms, and advice to parents.
Tell Your Story: Crafting Great College Admissions Essays
Tell Your Story: Crafting Great College Admissions Essays
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CGN Live: College — Straight Talk with Admission Leaders
Featured Experts: Kortni Campbell, Vice Chancellor for Admission & Financial Aid, University of North Carolina - Asheville; Jonathan Williams, Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Admissions, New York University
- How to manage the range of emotions with Early Decision results
- How to deal with well-meaning relatives asking sometimes awkward questions
- How the family of an 11th grader can work together to start their search
Wherever you are in the college process, the holidays are a busy and often emotional time. Whatever your situation, CGN has admission leaders ready to answer your questions live. Join us for an open-format Q&A, where the focus will be on you and your questions, on any aspect of the post-secondary journey.
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College Planning Seminar: Essays and Supplements
**Featured Expert:**
- Whitney Soule, Vice Provost and Dean of Admissions, University of Pennsylvania
**Host:**
- Brennan Barnard: Director of College Counseling, Khan Lab School
**Overview: **Essays and supplements are an opportunity to tell YOUR story in YOUR own words. In this interactive 30-minute live Q&A, you’ll learn:
- The key qualities of a highly effective personal statement and supplements
- The most effective ways to write about yourself without bragging
- What admissions officers are really looking for
- The limits on receiving help from well meaning adults
59:02
CGN Live - Challenge Accepted: College Admission and Your Future
The college search is a window into the next phase of life for students and those who support them. It can be exciting and full of opportunity and will also likely challenge you at some point. In this interactive Q&A, you’ll:"
- Get a framework for dealing with those inevitable challenges
- Gain perspective that will help tamp down anxiety about college admissions
- Learn what meatloaf has to do with any of this
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