College Essay Intensive
Writing the college essay is one of the most crucial (and stressful!) parts of the application process, but your rising senior can get that task checked off the list in five days this summer.
Writing the college essay is one of the most crucial (and stressful!) parts of the application process, but your rising senior can get that task checked off the list in five days this summer.
In the College Essay Intensive, students will:
In the College Essay Intensive, students will:
· Find out what colleges want to know about you in your essay—and what they don’t!
· Find out what colleges want to know about you in your essay—and what they don’t!
· Generate ideas for sophisticated and revealing personal essays
· Generate ideas for sophisticated and revealing personal essays
· Work to complete an advanced draft of a Common Application essay
· Work to complete an advanced draft of a Common Application essay
· Tackle “Why do you want to attend this college?” questions
· Tackle “Why do you want to attend this college?” questions
· Learn strategies for answering scholarship and supplemental essay prompts.
· Learn strategies for answering scholarship and supplemental essay prompts.
· Polish their writing with exercises in college-level concision, clarity, diction, narrative structure, and style.
· Polish their writing with exercises in college-level concision, clarity, diction, narrative structure, and style.
· Prepare for college-level composition
· Prepare for college-level composition
Students will write in a relaxed, personalized workshop environment with Northern Highlands’ librarian Julie Goldberg, an experienced English teacher, editor, research consultant, and writing coach. Ms. Goldberg holds master’s degrees in education, English and American literature, and in library and information science. She is also the editor of a literary journal and a published author of fiction and essays. She has taught writing for over twenty-five years.
Students will write in a relaxed, personalized workshop environment with Northern Highlands’ librarian Julie Goldberg, an experienced English teacher, editor, research consultant, and writing coach. Ms. Goldberg holds master’s degrees in education, English and American literature, and in library and information science. She is also the editor of a literary journal and a published author of fiction and essays. She has taught writing for over twenty-five years.
The College Essay Intensive is a one-week course, offered both in person and online. Students from any school are welcome, so bring a friend!
The College Essay Intensive is a one-week course, offered both in person and online. Students from any school are welcome, so bring a friend!
2023 Summer College Essay Intensive
2023 Summer College Essay Intensive
July 31-August 4th, 9am-12pm
July 31-August 4th, 9am-12pm
Got a group? If you have 4-10 students who would like to take the Summer College Essay Intensive, but cannot attend either of these, email CollegeEssayIntensive@gmail.com to propose a different week.
Got a group? If you have 4-10 students who would like to take the Summer College Essay Intensive, but cannot attend either of these, email CollegeEssayIntensive@gmail.com to propose a different week.
Students who register for the class must attend all five days.
Students who register for the class must attend all five days.