Topic check with Elias
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About this livestream
Coming up with an essay topic is no joke - and this close to the deadline, you might have questions about your essay flow and direction even if you’ve started. From feedback like users like you, CollegeVine has developed a solution to your writer’s block: a topic check!
During this stream, you can send in your anonymized topics for any admissions essay and have them reviewed by Elias live on the air. With plenty of admissions experience under his belt, Elias has the insight to help you craft the perfect personal statement topic.
You can submit topics for review to this form!
Undergrad College: Harvard University '17
Major: Music
Graduate College: University of Michigan, M.M.
Work Experience: Now in my fourth year at CollegeVine, I have helped dozens of students gain acceptance to their top-choice schools and have also advised and mentored thousands more through my livestreams. Apart from my work at CV, I am also a professional conductor and a multi-instrumentalist. I currently serve as the music director of the Apollo Ensemble of Boston, and I have led symphonic concerts and operatic productions throughout the United States.
My Admissions Story: Initially interested in pursuing a career as a performing cellist, I applied almost exclusively to music schools with dual and double degree options and ultimately enrolled in the Tufts University/New England Conservatory Dual Degree Program. Unhappy with the combined program and worried I'd never feel like I was fully a student at either school, I logged back into CommonApp.org in October of my freshman year. I can't say I went about the transfer process in the smartest way (I only applied to two schools!), but Harvard miraculously accepted me (or 'excepted me' as I wrote in a celebratory Facebook post that day - no one ever let me live that one down), and the rest was history.
