Tuesday, January 8, 2008

A Complimentary College-Essay Fix

As the year closes, tens of thousands of high-school seniors are scrambling to put together viable college-application packets, hoping to ensure their academic, professional and social future. The most pressurizing element of that packet is the essay: whereas GPA, resume of activities and SAT scores are statistics to put down on paper, the essay demands something more daunting of students, of these budding young adults. The essay calls for a statement of who they are.

What teen knows how to answer that question? Of course, they've been thinking about it for the past several years. They've been moving in and out of social groups, establishing personal boundaries, trying to fit in, trying to discover their identity. Now they are asked to express this identity in a clear statement – they get stuck.

They turn to their college advisors for help, to their teachers, to the adults in their life. Some spend lots of money on tutors who specialize in college-essay writing. They get advice about being original, about using the right words – they are instructed to omit a key aspect of their personality because Tufts or UC Davis might not like it.

At HelpWithYourEssay.com, we offer students a simple formula for composing the college essay, for formulating their life's vision and self-concept. We provide students with a blank text box in which to respond to the prompt:

"What is it that makes you great? What do you have deep inside of you that can do wonderful things? Spill it out in this box…"

After they've done so, we challenge them: "Done so fast? Go back and write some more."

We then email the students the piece of gold they have just written about themselves, directing them to take it and organize it in a structured, readable essay. We invite them to use our free premier automated essay-writing tutorials to facilitate that process. We wish them success in their endeavors, encouraging them to exploit their own greatness in whatever path they choose.

We at HelpWithYourEssay.com wish the same for you in this holiday season.


Ami Steinberger, MA, has been facilitating the growth of many student writers through private tutoring and other educational encounters over the past ten years. He has now begun to do so en masse with his new online writing facility, http://HelpWithYourEssay.com. Ami is 27 years old and lives in Jerusalem, Israel.

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