Offered: Summer Session I (June 18 – July 13, 2012) and II (July 16 – August 10, 2012)
Prerequisite: This course is designed for rising Seniors who will be applying to college during the coming school year

The purpose of this four-week course is to support students in writing essays, both the personal statement and the short answer essays, necessary for college applications. Students will be expected to write three personal statements (approximately 500 words each) and three short answer essays (approximately 150 words each). Because form is an important part of communicating message, instruction and feedback will focus both on style and content, and students must then commit to actively work on revision, through peer editing, instructor feedback, and re-writes. Students will be asked to get to know other members of the class and must be willing to be actively involved in talking with people about their own and others’ lives/experiences Because of the four-week time frame, students’ overall success in the course is dependent upon their meeting deadlines, both for their own writing and for providing feedback to others. Students can expect to return to their high school in the fall with active working drafts of their college essays.