Application Essay Workshops

Description

Essay Brain workshops provide intensive instruction and live (virtual) feedback from our team of tutors. Workshops take approximately 4 hours and allow applicants to kickstart their application essay through a combination of instruction, sharing ideas with other participants, and personal feedback from the tutor(s) leading the workshop. The typical schedule will include:

1. Introduction of participants
2. Introduction of the personal statement: what it is, what it isn’t
3. Writing breakout
4. Sharing ideas and group feedback
5. Instruction on writing exercise
6. Writing breakout
7. Group feedback
8. Instruction: finding your authentic voice
9. Writing breakout session
10. Personal meetings with tutors (rotating through participants)
11. Final review & wrap up directions
12. End