Award-Winning Private College Essays Tutoring in San Marcos, TX

The student and I went over his essay for college admissions. He has a good attitude towards the essay because he wants to get into college. We discussed format and outlining strategies at first and then talked specifically about the essay content. He agreed to write 100 words before our next meeting.

The student and I worked on his college essays. He had a rough draft for one, which gave us some good content to work with, but needs revising. He took a lot of notes on what to do for each essay, which was great. We also discussed his other essays that he has not written yet and figured out how to strike a balance between his interest in public health (medical school) and singing. I told him it is fine for him to take some time to think about what he wants to write because some of the questions are asking pretty deep questions that he needs to be prepared to answer truthfully and not superficially. I hope he took a day or two to do that and has been able to get something on paper now. As long as he gets it out on paper and he have the content, he is going to be fine.

The student and I went over all of the essay prompts for his college application. He was enthusiastic, very helpful, and engaged in the process of picking an essay topic and brainstorming content. We covered how to weave an essay that tells an engaging story while also reflecting the student's strengths. I left him the task of completing a first draft of his essay for review in our next session. It was a great first session!

We completely finished the first essay and nearly finished the second essay. The student has a lot of great ideas and good stream of consciousness. We're working on getting all the ideas onto paper and then going back to edit them. She is getting really good at recognizing when sentences are too wordy and we're working together to improve her self-editing skills.

We covered more supplemental essays and brainstormed for the "why this major" essay about the student's interest in engineering physics. He will have a draft of this and possibly of his explanation for his creative supplement to the application next time we meet on Tuesday.

After reviewing the prompts for the student's essays, we went over her goals and concerns for the essay writing process. I think she was struggling with organization and structure of one long essay and the concept of shorter essays, but I am very confident that she will overcome this in no time. Going forward, I am going to edit the one long essay the student shared with me and begin compiling a "master document," from which the student can pick and choose the paragraphs to include depending on the essays.