The Powerful College Application #Selfie

See Dr. J’s newest Huffington Post blog about how college applicants need to show up more in their application essays.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-joseph/the-powerful-college-application_b_6298218.html

Here is the first paragraph…

In this era of shameless teenage self-promotion through selfies, Instagram and Snapchat, it is remarkable how much difficulty many high school seniors experience in writing effective college application essays. For the past several months, I have mentored hundreds of high seniors throughout their college application preparation, especially in conceptualizing, writing and revising their college application essays. For the large majority of them, I have had to tell them: “You need to show up more in your essays.”