Watch Cornell grad and college consultant Samara Watkins's live essay editing session and learn tips and tricks to improve your essay, common errors, strategies for reducing word count, and more.
Samara will be editing a college essay live during Monday's event. She will walk through how admissions officers would read the essay, and go line by line making edits and suggestions.
You'll also have the opportunity for extensive Q&A about the editing choices that Samara is making and challenges that you're facing with your own essays.
Samara has spent seven admissions cycles helping students best represent themselves as both individuals and applicants in the elite college admissions process. As an alumna of Cornell University and child of 2 Harvard alumni interviewers, Samara is familiar with the Ivy League's rigorous academics and application process. Using her academic foundation in communication and Fortune 100 PR and brand management experience, Samara collaborates with her clients to craft narratives that best represent themselves to admissions committees. The wit, candor, and strategy Samara brings to collaborating with clients has been highly effective. Her clients have gained admission to Columbia, The University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, UC Berkley, NYU, and Boston University, among others. She looks forward to adding your student’s successful admission to this impressive list!
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