 Do Admissions Counselors Really Read College Application Essays?
Did you know every admissions counselor has a unique approach to reviewing college applications? Admissions counselors also read every word of your application - including the essays.
 | | Ted Spencer, vice provost, University of Michigan office of undergraduate admissions, with Kim Lifton, Wow Writing Workshop president |
At the University of Michigan, Erica Sanders, director of recruitment and operations, reviews student academics before reading the essays. Ted Spencer, associate vice provost and executive director of the university's undergraduate admissions, has a different application review style.
"I start with the academics first; then I read the essays to validate the application," Sanders said. "Ted takes the opposite approach. He reads the essays first."
Wow Writing Workshop spent four days last week in Denver, CO, talking to admissions experts, doing product demos for Wow Online - College Essay, meeting and getting to know high school and independent school counselors from the U.S., Canada and abroad, and chatting with educational consultants.
The Wow team interviewed representatives from many colleges, including the Big 10, the Ivy League, plus other private and public universities. We got a lesson in what goes on inside these colleges. Read more. |
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NACAC Conference
The Wow team just returned from an amazing week in Denver, where we attended the National Association for College Admission Counseling Conference. During the conference we introduced Wow Online - College Essay. (Read more about the product launch in this blog post.) We were inspired by the energy at the conference and the people we met.
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