5 Steps to Writing Great College Application Essays
Navigate the Journey to College with More Success and Less Stress
How do I write difference-making college application essays?
Where do I start? What topics should choose? How do I write a compelling "why this college" essay? What topics should I avoid? Does grammar matter? How do I make my Common App personal statement memorable?
College essays have a key element together with GPA to gain college acceptance.
Tip the scales in your favor with stand out essays.
In the new world emerging in which standardized scores from the SAT and ACT are often optional, your essays are gaining significance in college admissions.
After GPA, essays are the one thing that you have complete influence over, and they are the ONLY thing admissions officers use to get to know you as a person.
What Makes This Course Stand Out
You won't just emerge with better essays. Your instructor infuses her background as a human potential leader to guide you to gain confidence, self-knowledge, and build resilience as you enter college. tool you
The tool you'll learn to use to enhance writing skills – and life skills is the 5-step BEING Compass™ your course creator pioneered.
As the pioneer of the trademarked BEING Compass, she has taught the framework of the Compass to thought leaders and healing professionals in venues across the country, from international conferences on managing stress and trauma to hometown workshops for college-bound high school students.
Parents can rest assured that when their teens take this course, they will learn the five steps that not only guides the process of writing essays, it also provides a life-skill technique with a template that allows anyone who applies it to navigate through life’s challenges while guiding them in the direction of their fullest potential.
What Students Say About the 5 Steps to Writing College Essays
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“I appreciate the value of Janet’s system of starting with self-exploration worksheets. My answers helped me to articulate my passion for science while sharing about my volunteering background. Once I started drafting my common app personal statement, I saw how this work upfront came into play as I followed the BEING Compass to address my challenges and highlight my insights while sharing many facets about myself – all within the word limit.”
“The Compass really gets you to write your best essays. It helped me to articulate and showcase my best qualities ... and express who I am and not mold my essays to what I thought somebody else wanted to hear, and if they liked it - they liked it.”
“After learning to integrate the five steps of the BEING Compass into my personal statement, I was able to connect more deeply with my story and share from a personal level and then tell about how I overcame my challenges in a way that truly revealed my inner strengths.”
“When I started working with the structure of the 5-Step BEING Compass, I was able to make connections of things that were meaningful to me and to understand the fluidity of the past, present and future of my stories. Each step helped me to get to the core insights so I could write my essays in a more powerful and concise way.”
“Before using the five-step method of the BEING Compass, the writing process was slow to start and difficult to realistically portray myself in the essays. But with the Compass, I was guided towards a clear understanding of how my essays would reflect me while highlighting my strengths and personality in a fun, personal way.”
“When I first started trying to write my essays, it was difficult for me to express my ideas and transmit my message, so learning the five-step process in the BEING Compass was very important in helping to give me a structure to shape my ideas into an essay in a way that admissions officers could relate to and have fun reading!”
“Having the BEING Compass as a guide not only helped me understand how to write college essays effectively, it gave me a tool for self-exploration that I can use to identify how I feel about my experiences and what I can do to learn from them. In that sense, I think it will continue to help me in college.”
“Before I started writing, I was really overwhelmed, and I couldn't decide which prompts to choose or topics to write about, but the worksheets and the BEING Compass helped me brainstorm and outline different ideas that I could then focus on one-by-one. I could organize my thoughts and reflect about the events I was writing about from each relevant angle instead of worrying about the whole essay at the same time.”
“For my personal statement, I wanted to write about a milestone in my life, but I didn’t know how to make it meaningful. By learning how to include the elements of the BEING Compass, the process became easier because each step felt like a very natural progression through my story. The more I got into it, it felt less like a task and more like creating a memoir. It became an opportunity to take the time for self-reflection and discovery of who I really am.”
Take the stress out of your essays
Let me guide you through my tried and tested system
Maybe you’ve taken an ACT or SAT prep course or have plans set for that. And maybe your high school counselor can help you with the general application process – either in a one-on-one appointment or in a group presentation. That’s great ... those things are super important.
With specific objectives and tasks, this course provides a step-by-step roadmap to help you clear the fog, unlock writers block and share stories that may change your life. And it's offered at a price that won’t break the bank.
By the end of the course, having followed the 5-step process of the BEING Compass, you’ll be writing essays that answer the main question admissions officers want to know. Who is the person behind the grades, the activities, the SAT and ACT scores?
Tap into the Universal Storytelling Template Used Throughout Time
Learn to master the timeless and yet revolutionary art of storytelling using a unique roadmap of self-exploration and storytelling only offered here. This course infuses the trademarked inner guidance tool (BEING Compass) with the story arc secrets that Hollywood blockbusters have been using for decades ... and myths and legends have followed throughout time.
FAQ
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Is this course right for me?
If you are applying to colleges this coming fall, there is no doubt you will need to respond to essay prompts in your applications. This course can give you an edge up on the possibility of getting into the college of your choice because you will learn how to choose the right topics and write compelling essays that connect with admissions officers in a meaningful and memorable way. The course is relevant for prompts on the Common App, Coalition App, UC personal insights, Apply Texas essays and most supplemental essays.
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How long will I have access to the course?
You will have access for one year after the course has launched and you have purchased it.
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Will I receive one-on-one editing / coaching?
This course has primarily group-based support. Discussions will occur online and Q&A will be addressed by your peers in the community setting, and once a week the instructor will create a live session to answer questions. The Private Coaching Course includes everything in this course plus additional hours of one-on-one time for an additional fee.
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How will this course work once I've joined?
After the course has launched, you'll receive course log-in information and you'll have access to the whole course. You choose your own pace, and you can go through the course as many times as you want as needed during the one-year period you have access to it. You may want to review the material and start with fresh worksheets for different essays.
Janet Larson
About the Creator
Janet Larson, M.S.
Founder
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