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One of the questions we receive from clients here at PenningPapers is whether it’s safe to share their college essays online for help. Here’s the short answer: roughly speaking, it is. However, there are a few precautions you need to consider if you want to share your college essays online. Whether you’re looking to share … Read more
If you’re looking to write the UCSB appeal letter, you are probably already aware of how hard getting accepted can be. After all, the admissions office admits on their site that very few students get admitted through their appeal process. Before you get to writing your UCSB appeal letter, there you may first be wondering … Read more
If you’re planning to write a UCLA appeal letter, you may have a few questions. Two of the most common questions we get are the following: We’ll answer both these questions in this guide. Note: UCLA admissions rarely accepts appeals. The advice in this guide does not guarantee acceptance. It guarantees you will write the … Read more
The USC transfer appeal process is vague. There aren’t many resources talking about it, including the school’s official website. As such, we recommend treading lightly when researching online. Many online articles and forums discussing the USC transfer appeal letter are limited to arbitrary conjecture. To make things harder, USC seldom ever accepts transfer appeals. Most … Read more
Here at PenningPapers, we typically get flooded with requests and inquiries on how to write the UC Berkeley Appeal letter in the spring. We won’t sugarcoat it: most Berkeley appeal letters we’ve read weren’t strong. Many students with near-perfect marks, fantastic extracurriculars, and glowing work experiences had below-average appeal letters. In fact, most of them … Read more
Writing the Princeton transfer essays is not going to be as easy as it is for other schools. After all, they only started accepting transfer students around the Fall of 2017. This opened an entire population of aspiring Princeton students looking to be part of the 1% who get accepted. Well, more accurately, the 1.18% … Read more
Whether you’re applying as a transfer or as a freshman applicant, the Georgia Tech essay prompts are the same. The only difference is that the Georgia Tech transfer application has one essay that is unique compared to the original freshman application one. You may have figured out already that the Georgia Tech essays play a … Read more
Here at PenningPapers, we’ve researched everything you need to know about transferring to Cornell. Cornell is one of the most common requests we get for transfer help; this is especially true since many of our clients want the prestige of an Ivy League university without having to face the difficulty of a single-digit acceptance rate. … Read more
Let’s be brutally honest here! Good grades aren’t cutting it anymore. Grades, test scores, work experinece, and other activities have become statistics with just how many applicants colleges need to parse through. Even the best stats make you just that: a statistic. In fact, Northeastern University had a daunting 31.12% acceptance rate. Yikes. That’s why … Read more
It’s beautiful, isn’t it? Dartmouth College. You’ve seen what it looks like, you’ve read everything about it, and you’ve probably fantasized in the shower about your first year there as a freshman. Using up all the hot water in the house, probably. Though, that doesn’t matter. What matters is that you know Dartmouth College is … Read more