College Admission Essay Course

short course about college admission essays

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College Application Essays with EssayEdge

Lesson One:
Tackling the Question

Lesson Two:
Brainstorming a Topic

Lesson Three:
Structure and Outline

Lesson Four:
Style and Tone

Lesson Five:
Intros and Conclusions

Lesson Six:
Editing and Revising

Application Essay Writing 101

The application is a lifeless thing--a few sheets of paper and a few numbers.
The essay is the best way to breathe life into it. - Admissions Officer

Welcome to EssayEdge’s Admissions Essay writing course. After editing tens of thousands of admissions essays for applicants, we created the ultimate course for students seeking an extra edge in the ultra-competitive college and graduate school application process.

The course contains six lessons and over 100 pages of content. Each of the lessons should help you with a different portion of the essay.

Enter the course by clicking a link below or to the left.

Lesson One: Tackling the Question

Question-specific strategies and samples of various types of questions with comments by admissions officers:

College

Business School

Law School

Medical School

EssayEdge Extra: Who's reading my essay?

Lesson Two: Brainstorming and Selecting an Essay Topic

Brainstorming worksheet

Selecting a Topic: Do's and don'ts with comments by experienced admissions officers

EssayEdge Extra: One essay, multiple applications

Lesson Three: Structure and Outline

Descriptions and examples of five popular essay structures

Sample outline and essay

Strategies and examples of short essays

Templates, severe writer's block cure

Lesson Four: Style and Tone

Sentence variety with exercise

Word choice: Common pitfalls

Transitions: Improving flow

Verbs: Active voice vs. Passive voice

Active or Passive? Verb quiz

Making sentences active voice, an exercise

Essay cliches: Top 10 essay cliches

EssayEdge Extra: Trimming the Fat - Reducing wordiness

Lesson Five: Introductions and Conclusions

Descriptions, examples, and critiques of nine popular styles of introduction

Conclusions: Do's and don'ts

EssayEdge Extra: No Introduction??!!

Lesson Six: Editing and Revising

Paying attention to substance, structure, interest, and proofreading

Actual essay gaffes (funny)

Final steps

EssayEdge Extra: To title or not to title

From ESSAYS THAT WILL GET YOU INTO COLLEGE, by Amy Burnham, Daniel Kaufman, and Chris Dowhan.
Copyright 1998 by Dan Kaufman. Reprinted by arrangement with Barron's Educational Series, Inc.