"Dear College Applicants..."
It is college application “crunch” time, and time to create and polish your essays. For most, the personal essay will be one of the few ways to distinguish yourselves from fellow applicants. A few hundred well-considered words will allow you to jump out of the admissions office files that have initially reduced you to raw, impersonal numbers. The essay is an important, often rushed element in the evaluation process, and savvy applicants will take full advantage of the opportunity.
I am the parent of a Wheeler ’09 graduate, now a freshman at Columbia University. Over the years I have helped her and many sons and daughters of friends to think about, craft and edit their essays and school articles. The combined efforts have assisted students applying to places such as Amherst, Princeton, Rice, RISD, Savannah College of Art & Design, Virginia, Chicago, Swarthmore, Smith, Middlebury, Wellesley and Brown, among others. I help students consider who they are and how to set their best foot forward. I do not write the essays, but I can offer impartial advice and editorial assistance. Oftentimes, it is psychologically easier for someone who is neither a parent nor a school advisor, someone who has an outside, educated and experienced perspective, help in the process.
What are my credentials? I majored in English at Princeton University and attended Harvard’s Publishing Procedures Course, after which I worked in NYC as an editor and writer at The Village Voice, American Photographer and as a freelance editor. I have written dozens of winning proposals for toy and clothing manufacturing companies, a hospital foundation’s newsletter, a publishing house, as well as being directly or tangentially involved with writing for many corporations and educational institutions, alumni publications and newspapers. I have interviewed applicants to Princeton as an alumni volunteer in New York and Rhode Island every year since 1991.
Seniors who would like an impartial, qualified editor to assist them sort out and focus on a solution, or parents who may see the advantage of inserting a third party between themselves and their children in a situation fraught with the pressures of “getting in,” I am available to help you. Give me a call.
I am the parent of a Wheeler ’09 graduate, now a freshman at Columbia University. Over the years I have helped her and many sons and daughters of friends to think about, craft and edit their essays and school articles. The combined efforts have assisted students applying to places such as Amherst, Princeton, Rice, RISD, Savannah College of Art & Design, Virginia, Chicago, Swarthmore, Smith, Middlebury, Wellesley and Brown, among others. I help students consider who they are and how to set their best foot forward. I do not write the essays, but I can offer impartial advice and editorial assistance. Oftentimes, it is psychologically easier for someone who is neither a parent nor a school advisor, someone who has an outside, educated and experienced perspective, help in the process.
What are my credentials? I majored in English at Princeton University and attended Harvard’s Publishing Procedures Course, after which I worked in NYC as an editor and writer at The Village Voice, American Photographer and as a freelance editor. I have written dozens of winning proposals for toy and clothing manufacturing companies, a hospital foundation’s newsletter, a publishing house, as well as being directly or tangentially involved with writing for many corporations and educational institutions, alumni publications and newspapers. I have interviewed applicants to Princeton as an alumni volunteer in New York and Rhode Island every year since 1991.
Seniors who would like an impartial, qualified editor to assist them sort out and focus on a solution, or parents who may see the advantage of inserting a third party between themselves and their children in a situation fraught with the pressures of “getting in,” I am available to help you. Give me a call.
posted by Stonechuck at 2:46 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home