For those of you who love to write (or who have children who love to write), check out these summer opportunities! Keeping up your writing abilities over your summer vacation… read more →
Schools like Yale, UC Berkeley, and many public universities ask their applicants questions about diversity. While this question is most common in graduate school applications, it does come up in… read more →
ANNOUNCING A NEW SERIES: Check out these weekly tips from Essay Coaching! A new tip appears every Tuesday on Twitter @DebMerion, and on our Facebook page. You can also find… read more →
College bound high schoolers: starting to think about applying to college? Make room on your desk next to the Common Application for a new college application from the Coalition for… read more →
March 20, 2016. College scholarships can take some digging. We’ve included thirty-two of them in this blog, a group worth a total of $96,000. If you are a college applicant… read more →
Some people love the “gap year” idea (a year without formal schooling between high school and college). Others say, “Nose to the grindstone! Get it done!” Fortunately for our daughter… read more →
The Common Application has announced that the 2016-2017 personal statement essay prompts will be the same as the 2015-2016 prompts. With these questions in hand, high school juniors can now… read more →
Oct 16, 2014. In my seventh year speaking in the St Clair County KnowHow2Go Ask an Expert Series, I presented “Seven Secrets for Writing a Standout College Application Essay.” The… read more →
Sept 30, 2014. Sitting in front of me these days—in my office and on Skype—are high school seniors and their parents who sometimes look worried, stressed or befuddled about the… read more →
For years I’ve been wrestling with this question: What is the quickest, clearest way to describe what colleges want to learn about a student in his or her college application… read more →