Daily Archives: July 10, 2019


Application Packaging: FIVE Helpful Hints in Choosing a Personal Essay Topic

Most of the calls into CPE over the past few weeks have been from increasingly anxious parents and students seeking guidance on college applicants’ personal essays. Am I available to help brainstorm or critique or overhaul or edit or polish? Yes, I am, for all of the above, as are a number of junior tutors/consultants at CPE. 🙂 But to help students get started right here, right now, here are five helpful hints to choosing a topic. 1. Think about your essay topic in the context of the forms leading up to the Writing section of the CommonApp (or any […]