Your Best Self on Paper: The College Application Essay

This 3-hour afternoon workshop will help juniors and seniors in high school draft and develop a personal essay that showcases their strengths as writers and young adults. Teens will have the opportunity to generate or refine an essay topic; put down a first layer of words; get constructive feedback from peers and the instructor; and identify next steps as they move forward with their college applications. As they take charge of that process, they’ll discover in their writing a key to making their own choices about what they want to accomplish in the next exciting stage of their lives.