CC Bootcamp: How to Ace Your College Essay? - Live Session w/ Lehigh Admissions Officers on Aug 27 at 7pm ET

Resources 2024 CC Bootcamp for Incoming Seniors
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Join us for the fourth session of the CC Bootcamp line-up on Tue, Aug 27 at 7pm ET and learn how to ace your college essays. Learn directly from the Lehigh Admissions Officer @JennaLehighU and @KatyLehighU what they look for in a candidate and how they evaluate your essays.

Session Outline:

  • Common App Essay tips
  • Supplemental Essay tips
  • AI Essays

About Lehigh University

Located in Pennsylvania’s beautiful Lehigh Valley, Lehigh University is one of the nation’s most distinguished private research universities. Lehigh’s 7,000+ undergraduate and graduate students are spread across the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, College of Health, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science and College of Education. Lehigh students are inspired to think deeply, driven to create pragmatic solutions, and encouraged to innovate collaboratively.

About Katy Mitton

@KatyLehighU has been a part of the higher ed landscape in different capacities for the past 10 years. She has spent the past three years at Lehigh University as an Assistant Director of Admissions. Some of Katy’s primary responsibilities include the daily operations of a campus visit, recruitment of students from six counties in New Jersey, as well as the states of Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia, and the reading/evaluation of applications each academic cycle.

About Jenna Okula

@JennaLehighU joined the Lehigh University Admissions team in December 2023 as the Senior Assistant Director of Admissions. With extensive experience in higher education, she now assists in marketing and communications efforts, recruits students from three New Jersey counties and Colorado, and conducts holistic application reviews each academic cycle.

Have any questions on how to ace your college essays? What to hear directly from the admissions officer on how they grade essays? Make sure to ask them below.

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@StudentsEssayReviews, you can now hear directly from these Admissions Officers what they look for in a candidate and how they evaluate your essays. Just comment below to ask your questions!

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How are these information sessions conducted ? Video, audio, or just written questions & answers. Thank you.

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@Publisher, this is going to be a written Q&A session in this thread. If you have questions, you can ask them by commenting below.

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Are application essays given a numerical grade or assessed by commentary ?

What qualities do you value in an applicant’s essay ?

Are you suspicious of highly polished application essays ?

What do you think about an essay which does not have a natural flow ?

What are some aspects of an application essay from which you assess the applicant’s intellectual depth ?

How do you react to an application essay that incorporates a regurgitation of the applicant’s resume ?

Thank you in advance for considering and responding to these questions.

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How is AI impacting college essays?
Do you run essays through a plagiarism checker?

What advice would have for the volunteer essay readers on this site who are attempting to help students with their essays?

Thank you!

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How important is an applicant’s class rank ?

Do you have a soft cutoff with respect to class rank ?

What is your impression of a splitter applicant–high standardized test score (above Lehigh’s 75th%) combined with a modest GPA ?

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would an essay about an event that made me go from a person that is ashamed of his home country to someone who loves it now and wants to make it a better place OK? i feel like it’s kinda cliche. BTW the theme of my profile is making my country a better place.

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how should applicants link their essays to their activities?

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I went through a challenging situation in high school. How should I incorporate this into my essays?

None of my extracurriculars or interests are particularly unique. How can I make my essay stand out in a good way?

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@essay-readers, this is a great opportunity to ask any questions you have on how to best help students with their essays.

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How much time do you spend reading the Common App essay?

How much weight is given to substance vs writing skills?

How important is it that the essay addresses the prompt?

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I came across this issue last year and would love to hear what an Admissions Officer thinks: how do you evaluate great writing that has little substance? I.e. does the beautiful writing trump the lack of substance?

(@BKSquared asked a similar question)

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My senior is required to write about an experience in high school that has really shaped who she is today. Is there a good resource to find specific examples of what other students have written for this type of essay prompt?

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Thank you all for attending the fourth session of our CC Bootcamp for Incoming HS Seniors ! We’ll go live shortly and I’m excited to welcome @KatyLehighU and @JennaLehighU from Lehigh University who are going to help you ace your college essays.

@CCBootcamp_Aug2024, do you want to hear directly from the Admissions Officers? Have any questions on how to ace your college essays? Make sure to ask them by commenting below!

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Do we click on the link or just stay here?

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@Blmom23, stay here. The live session will happen here, on this thread, in the comments.

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Hi everyone! We are so excited to spend some time answering your questions tonight.

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@JennaLehighU, @KatyLehighU, do you want to share the information you prepared for this session? Once that part is done you can start answering questions. We already received numerous questions so we’re excited to get your answers.

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