Colorado College - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com Great College Advice Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:29:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/758df36141c47d1f8f375b9cc39a9095.png Colorado College - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com 32 32 “Design Your Own Course” Essay Question – Tips from Colorado College https://greatcollegeadvice.com/writing-the-design-your-own-course-essay-question-tips-from-colorado-college/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writing-the-design-your-own-course-essay-question-tips-from-colorado-college Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:20:35 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=12695 Having trouble answering that "design a college course" essay topic for your college application? Here are some tips for tackling this question from Colorado College.

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If you could design a college course what would it be? Not only that, how would you write about it?
This year I have come across a number of colleges asking prospective students to write a supplemental essay that has the student design a course, or a theme house, that could be implemented at the college. As I work with students, I find they often struggle a bit with this question. They worry that they will come up with something that has already been done or is not creative enough. So, I like to encourage them to break the question down as they are brainstorming.

Here are some of the questions I pose to students brainstorming on this essay topic:

  • What is a theme or subject that interests you?
  • What is a program or class you personally would want to take part in? Why?
  • What would that program have as its main components?
  • What would set it apart from other courses or programs on the campus?
  • Could this program actually be implemented?

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]]> It May be January, But It's Not Too Late to Apply to College! https://greatcollegeadvice.com/it-may-be-january-but-its-not-too-late-to-apply-to-college/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-may-be-january-but-its-not-too-late-to-apply-to-college Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:55:42 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=9712 Although the January 1st application deadlines have passed, there are still many other colleges to which you can apply.

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]]> Sure the January 1st application deadlines for many colleges have passed, but fear not, there are still many, many colleges to which you can still apply.  In fact, there are a surprising number of colleges that have March 1st deadlines.

In this first of a series of three blogs, we’ll look at colleges which all have January 15th deadlines.

  • American University
  • Babson
  • Bard
  • Beloit (note: early action is 3 days earlier- Jan 12)
  • Bentley
  • Brandeis
  • Bryn Mawr
  • Bucknell
  • Case Western
  • Chapman
  • Clark University
  • Clarkson University
  • Colgate
  • UC Boulder
  • Colorado College
  • University of Dallas
  • Denison University
  • University of Denver
  • DePaul (Chicago)
  • Dickinson College
  • Emory
  • Fordham
  • Franklin & Marshall
  • Furman
  • Georgia Tech
  • Hampshire College
  • Haverford
  • McGill
  • Kenyon College
  • Loyola Marymount University
  • Mt. Holyoke
  • UNH Chapel Hill
  • Oberlin
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic (RPI)
  • Rhodes College
  • University of Richmond
  • University of San Diego (USD)
  • University of San Francisco (USF)
  • Seattle University
  • Skidmore College
  • Texas A & M
  • Tulane University
  • Union College
  • University of Vermont
  • Virginia Tech
  • Wellesley
  • Whitman
  • Wittenberg

And if you’re feeling ambitious, you might even make the January 10th deadline for USC or the January 11th deadline for NYU!
Juliet Giglio
Educational Consultant in Syracuse, New York

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]]> Snowboarder From Holderness School Gets Great College Advice https://greatcollegeadvice.com/snowboarder-from-holderness-school-gets-great-college-advice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=snowboarder-from-holderness-school-gets-great-college-advice Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:29:17 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=7792 Alex needed help with his college applications and essays, as well as finding the schools that fit him best. He turned to Mark Montgomery for help.

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]]> Alex is a snowboarder.  And a good student the Holderness School.  He needed some advice on how to choose the right colleges and how to develop a strategy for his applications.  Mark worked with him on both counts, and he’s happily situated for his first year of college.
In this short video, Alex shares some of his experiences working with Mark.

 
Mark Montgomery
Educational Consultant

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