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College Admissions Essay Help

What is College Admissions Essay Help?  

This is a service we've informally offered for years that we're formally rolling out fall 2011.  

If you're writing a college admissions essay, you need a professional to spend a significant amount of time looking at it.  The English teacher you were going to ask to read it, will read it twice and look for spelling errors or punctuation issues, and give it right back to you.  She'll give you about 15 minutes of her time, and the results will be substandard.  

Writing is my specialty, and I'll read your first draft 10 - 15 times, minimum, before I make a single suggestion.  Then, I'll guide you through the rewrites so that your essay is of the highest possible quality.  The results have been amazing, and far beyond anything you could expect from a teacher at your school.  

There is about a 7-day turnaround minimum on these essays, so make sure you begin planning now.

College Admissions Essay Help $95

Live Before and After Essay

Before you decide if your child needs this service, please look at this “Before and After” essay from an A.P. Honors Student.  The original essay was absolutely horrific (which you will see), but received a positive affirmation from from her English “Teacher” at school.  After several rewrites over a 2 week period under our tutelage, the essay was much better.

Important College Admissions Essay Help Disclosures

The essay must be submitted by the student at least 2 - weeks before the essay is due .  The submitted essay must be the student’s own work.  The student should consider the submitted essay to be his “final draft.”  An essay perceived to be a “rough draft” will be sent back to the student.

The submitted essay must be delivered via email to jwilson@carolinacollegeprep.com with “College Admissions Essay Submission” in the Subject line.  The essay will be attached to the email in a Microsoft Word format.  It should not be attached in a zipped file, or pasted into the body of the email.  

Within a day or two I will confirm receiving your essay.  A few days later, I will send you an email detailing a list of suggested revisions, as well as a list of grammatical errors.  In most instances, fixing the errors and making the suggested revisions will still result in a substandard essay ~ requiring further re-writes.  In some instances, the recommendation will be to “start over” because the submitted essay is simply beyond repair.

Be fairly warned.  At times, this process can be demanding, critical, and a bit ‘direct.’  We believe that it is better you hear it from us, than the college admissions board from your ‘target’ school.  

Your student’s essay is supposed to “speak” favorably on your child’s behalf, not cast doubt on their potential enrollment.  We take the written language seriously, and make no apologies for our stringent approach to helping your student learn to write well.