This category of articles is dedicated to all general advice and good notes. All general advice is catered toward applicants who are mostly uncertain or at most decently informed about the nature of the university application essay section. This set of guides can also be helpful for those who are more informed about the way application essays work and are good writers, as our team imparts information most applicants have no access or exposure to.
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Note: This guide is part of a series of 8 other guides on the best ways to answer the UC PIQ prompts. You can check it out here. If you already know what you want to major in at university, the UC essay prompt 4 will give you a major advantage. This is your opportunity … Read more
This year, we’ve just received great news about one of four latest clients and their UC transfer application. They got in! The school? UC Berkeley. *Cue streamers* Now, they actually got into other schools like UCLA, UC San Diego, and a few other transfer schools of their choice. This article, though, is just focused on … Read more
The first thing that grazes everyone’s minds during the college admissions process is usually this: “When should I hire someone to write my college essay?” That, as many dear readers would have guessed, depends on the situation. Said situation, however, may be a little bit more complicated than most people think. In this article, we’ll … Read more
The Miscommunication There have, ever since the beginning of the college admissions game, been very long-standing disputes about what actually matters in the college application process. “What really gets students into Harvard?” “Will I get into UC Berkeley if my scores are lower than average?” “I played the piano!” Many parents and even other teachers … Read more
Yep, that’s right: it’s the famous Costco college essay that got Brittany Stinson into five Ivy League schools. Said schools include Columbia, Yale, UPenn, Cornell, and Dartmouth. Now, this application essay was considered one of the “quintessential college essays” that every student was expected to strive for. It had a lot of positive attributes to … Read more
This is just one of the UCLA accepted essays in our archives. But what made this essay particularly interesting isn’t the fact that it got our applicant accepted, no. What makes this UCLA essay special is that it was peppered in mistakes. Nonetheless, they got in! Now, that doesn’t mean that you get to butcher … Read more
Successful UC Berkeley Admissions Essay: Intro So, you want to get into one of the top public schools in the United States: UC Berkeley. Of course, getting in means having strong essays that will beat out the rest of the competition. If you’re looking for a solid UC Berkeley essay that worked, look no further. … Read more
Update 2023-24: It’s been a while since our last update. During that time, we’ve been very fortunate to have other students who were accepted into great schools! So, we’ve added a new essay to this article to hopefully inspire you. The UC essay prompt 5 (PIQ 5) is one of the best essay prompts to … Read more
In this article, we will cover one of our successful UC Essay Prompt 3 examples. We’ll also cover some of the elements that made the essay strong and stand out from the rest. You can incorporate these into your own essay to boost its strength and, ultimately, help you stay competitive in the UC admissions … Read more
In this article, we’ll be sharing one of our successful UC essay prompt 2 example essays that got accepted into UC San Diego. Our client in question was accepted into a rather competitive major (Engineering) even with a non-competitive academic profile. Best of all, we’ll show how to write with their level of creativity! That … Read more