Rating YOUR College Essays | Yale '20 Grad Explains How to Write AMAZING Common App Essays

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Back due to popular demand! In this video, I've selected two more common application college essays to review for you guys! Definitely stick to the end because those last two minutes are some of the most important college application advice I've shared on this channel!! Thanks for blessing me with the opportunity to review your work!
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0:00 Welcome!
1:05 Common App #1
3:14 P/S Ratio
8:43 VSPICE rubric
10:25 Common App #2
17:50 MOST IMPORTANT PART DO NOT SKIP
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ABOUT US
Hi! We're Kevin and Jeffrey, two Yalies who want to help you get into your dream school!
About Kevin Zhen: Exeter '16, Yale '20 (East Asian Studies)
Since 2016, Kevin has personally helped more than 50+ students gain acceptances into every Ivy League University, as well as top tech schools such as Stanford and Georgia Tech. He also loves teaching creative nonfiction, flash fiction and poetry. In total, his students have won more than 120+ Scholastic Writing awards.
About Jeffrey Yu: Yale '23 (Computer Science and East Asian Studies)
Jeff is a senior at Yale double majoring in Computer Science and East Asian Studies with a concentration on China. His college admissions essay was featured in the New York Times, and he specializes in essay writing, college admissions strategy, and life coaching. He has served as a Student Ambassador to the Yale Admissions Office, written extensively about college admissions on Quora and has taught courses on motivation, passion, and leadership while sponsored by the US Embassy in Tokyo.
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@elevatedschool 9 ай бұрын

Hi everyone! It's been 2 years since we started this KZfaq channel + launched this agency to help kids get into colleges. So far, we've helped more than 70+ students from all across the world and every background imaginable get into every single Ivy League School, Stanford, MIT and more! If you'd like your essay by us, just visit our website! www.elevated.school/editmyessay

@nirajgupta7386 8 ай бұрын

I learned about problem solution ratio where solution should be at least 50%, make unique flow. punctuation, ending should be cohesive, use full circle effect, connecting the beginning

@julianikolai 8 ай бұрын

I learned to write sentences that only YOU could write.

@geoffbenedicttorejos3513 9 ай бұрын

I don't know what to write in my essay 😭 it's so overwhelming

@lenl8004 9 ай бұрын

Real

@user-xe7dx8un3i 9 ай бұрын

I love these walkthroughs! Unfortunately, didn't have enough time to submit for this post, but I'm eagerly waiting for the next free :) personal essay post, and definitely will be seeking you out for supplementals and such. Thanks for all you do ❤

@sarthak1448 8 ай бұрын

Hi Kevin, I can't the comment to reply under this video so I am putting it here only, I hope you will notice. It helped me to learn the importance of balancing PROBLEMS and SOLUTIONS aspects in my essays, using specific and unique details, crafting a distinctive voice, connecting the beginning and ending to emphasize core themes and keywords, demonstrating intellectual curiosity and personal growth, and providing context for acronyms. This is I think I learned from this video.

@tjones3819 9 ай бұрын

This is, once again, extremely helpful. Thank you!

@elevatedschool 8 ай бұрын

Hi friends! It's happening again! From now until September 28th, we will be reviewing YOUR supplemental and UC essays for free! Send them to essay@elevated.school with the subject line "KZfaq Review" for a chance to have your essay analyzed on our channel! If you are comfortable having me workshop your common app essay in a KZfaq video, I would be more than happy to do it completely free for you (we will anonymize your names of course!)! 😊😊😊

@orlehmann-6177 8 ай бұрын

Hi Kevin!! I'm an international student and I've been struggling to put together my Common App essay, but your videos are SO helpful!. This particular video really helped me understand the problem I had with the eureka problem and the problem-solution ratio. Your advice on how to end the essay was really helpful as well and I will definitely implant it in my essay. I would love to hear your input and take on my essay! I'm pretty proud of how it turned out but given the fact I have no one to help me with my application (it's not very common to apply to US universities where I live), it would be extremely helpful if you could take a look at my essay

@elevatedschool 9 ай бұрын

And here's a link to our ElevatEd Common App Essay Rubric! docs.google.com/document/d/1OwMn1stiiTYa7mfcd8TyQelO4RvlCjpmILU0yt3Hk4c/edit#heading=h.k0us0raxnhq7

@tahahassina 9 ай бұрын

best concept ever!! please do more. I hope I could be more helpful

@waniyaamir5088 7 ай бұрын

hey Kevin, these essay videos are my absolute favourite! You've mentioned dfferent templates throughout the video ('wheather, or ' template, 'double problem solution' ). D'you have separate videos or resoures available for that?

@ngwuemeka1838 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for this! The p/s ratio 😀. How do you know that you’re writing on a good problem?

@kathleengauvin 9 ай бұрын

I’ve always told my students your responsibility as a writer is to make the reader either laugh, cry, or go hmmmmmm

@ibrahimali1282 9 ай бұрын

Should it be funny the whole time how do you make it a balance of humour and seriousness

@kathleengauvin 8 ай бұрын

@@ibrahimali1282 Usually if you can end with a Giggle, that is all it takes.

@hehsamtaraf6922 9 ай бұрын

What would you rate the second essay/10?

@MechidPodcast 8 ай бұрын

Hi Kevin, Is it fine to use contractions( Should've, I'd, would've etc....) in our personal statement?

@elevatedschool 8 ай бұрын

Yes totally!

@mantashasiddiqui4008 9 ай бұрын

Hey can you help me with my common app essay? I am Internationa student. English is not my first language so I am not able to frame my essay. your help will be highly appreciated.

@analu2821 9 ай бұрын

Please let us know when there will be a part 3 to be ready!!

@elevatedschool 9 ай бұрын

Part 3 is coming out on Sunday, September 24th! :)

@analu2821 9 ай бұрын

thankyou so much!!!@@elevatedschool

@alannav3034 9 ай бұрын

Are you open to reviewing non-common app essays in the next video? I have a 350 word UC essay that I'd like to email over if you are accepting other essay types!

@elevatedschool 9 ай бұрын

Yes great idea! For the next video I'll open it up to UC essays :)