College Essays | Top 10 Mistakes: #7 Answering the Prompt | ADMITIUM

When I read a brilliant essay while speed-reading applications as a Stanford admissions officer, do you think I ever stopped, and said, "Well, she didn't answer the prompt?" The prompts don't matter. What does? IV, Points of Excellence, and Texture. Take our course and get your writing squared away so you don't make the same mistakes even the smartest students make.

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WRITING WORKSHOP SYLLABUS
Total Course: 4 hours 30 min of examples, strategy, advice

WORKSHOP 1: Essay Topics. What should you write about? Here’s the short answer: Do not write about “who you are.” My Bullseye Method provides you an easy three-step process to select a compelling essay topic. (Time: 12 min 32 s)

WORKSHOP 2: Researching Topics. You must do research. You’re going to need to write a lot of essays. Do not rely on your memory. You’ll write about irrelevant childhood stories that highlight secondary personal qualities like every other applicant. You’re applying to work with Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, published authors. So why wouldn’t you write about what they write about? We cover nine exceptional sources for you to find intellectual materials to work with in your essays so you write like the scholars you’re applying to work with. (Time: 25:08)

WORKSHOP 3: Three Compelling Personal Essays. This is what compelling essays look like. I walk through three full essays, explain how they work, and why they’re so compelling. Each essay showcases a different way to intellectualize a personal experience, "passion," or activity. (Time: 37:26)

WORKSHOP 4: Ten Compelling Moves. So how do you take your personal activities and make them smart, interesting, and compelling? I teach you 10 Moves to turn any topic–from SPAM, to bikinis, to basketball–into a compelling piece of writing glowing with IV. (Time: 47:44)

WORKSHOP 5: Ten Tactics. Make every word tell. I provide sentence-level advice on your opening, middle, and closing. We track a fourth compelling personal essay and one of my favorites: Bob Dylan. We look at examples of common writing to avoid, compelling writing to emulate, and professional writing to strive for. (Time: 57:19)

WORKSHOP 6: Supplemental Applications. But what about all those other essays you need to write? I teach you my capstone strategy: Admissions Alter Ego.
-Then we walk through how to apply this concept in a full Common Application and Stanford Supplemental Application (nine essays total).
-Then we cover your three major supplemental essays: (1) Why-This-College, Why-This-Major Essay; (2) World-You-Come-From, Diversity Essay; and (3) Extracurricular Essay. We talk strategy and I provide at least four compelling examples for every category.
-Finally, we end with the short popcorn questions (50 words or less) that schools like Stanford and Yale ask. These are crucial: your second easiest way to stand out–after your Activities Titles and Descriptions, see Masterclass V. (Time: 1 hour, 24 min, 39 s)

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