College Essay News and Tips from College Essay Advisors

College Essay News and Tips from College Essay Advisors College Essay News and Tips: CEAs Link Roundup College Essay News and Tips: CEAs Link Roundup College essay news has been coming fast and furious but we only select the best, most interesting stories for you, dear readers. Sit back, relax, and bask in the glow of our  hand-picked college essay news items. Remember that  New Republic  piece on the Ivy League? Of course you do. Heres another response. There is no better feeling than being proven right:  school does, in fact, start too early. The New York Times lists  the most economically diverse top colleges. Remember when back to school shopping meant binders and colored pens? Lifehacker doesn’t remember that either. Apps are where it’s at. We could NOT WAIT to share this:  A previously unpublished chapter of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! A brave young woman wrote  about her rape and sexual abuse by her stepfather in her college essay,  resulting in an 18-year sentence for the perpetrator. Quite a story. Inspiration for writing your college essay can come from anywhere. Including Broadway. True or False? International students head to smaller U.S. cities for college more than larger ones. Gawker ranks safety schools.   In the wise words of RuPaul “your fear of looking stupid is making you look stupid.” Need help on your essay? Ask us for advice! Read our guide  to the 2015-16 Common App Essay. Read more about  The College Essay Advisors Process. Check out these  Tips for Brainstorming Essay Topics. About CEA HQView all posts by CEA HQ » College Essay News and Tips from College Essay Advisors College Essay News and Tips: CEAs Weekly Link Roundup College Essay News and Tips: CEAs Weekly Link Roundup Welcome back to our second installment of our new series, College Essay Link Roundup!  We had a great time reading up on the latest admissions and college essay news (with a glass of lemonade on our lounge chair, OBVS), and have lots to share with you. Between our last Roundup and now, the internet exploded with commentary on William Deresiewicz’s piece in the New Republic, warning parents not to send their kids to Ivy League schools.  Everyone from the New Yorker, to Salon, to the New Republic again had an opinion. Clearly this is a topic that deserves a good, long  exploration. Might we  suggest that you  talk amongst yourselves? In other, less incendiary, news:  The Onion goes on campus tours with you. Slate Magazine’s Rebecca Schuman wants you to stop right-click-thesaurasizing everything you write.  Otherwise, she will give you the “you keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means” talk. Essay-writing tips by an international student for international applicants that can work for domestic applicants too. Hate standardized tests?  Some schools are starting to agree with you. A Boston University application reader listens to the James Brown Pandora station on her “pajama days” reading applications.  How many essay writers just turned on some James Brown right now?  We bet at least half of you are writing in pajamas already. About CEA HQView all posts by CEA HQ »