• FREE LIVE WEBINAR

10 Ways to Level Up Your College Application Before You Click "Submit"

  • Thursday, October 15th
  • 4-5 PM PST/7-8 PM EST
  • Can't make it live? A recording will be available within 1–2 business days.

Your college application is almost ready to go, but before you hit “Submit,” let’s make sure it’s putting your best foot forward. Join us for a practical, last-minute look at the small (and not-so-small) changes that can make your application stronger, more cohesive, and more compelling to admissions officers. We’ll share actionable strategies, walk through a standout application, and leave plenty of time for your questions.

We’ll cover:

  • Four ways to know if your application is doing its job (and what that actually is)
  • Three ways to improve your activities list
  • Two qualities your supplemental essays should demonstrate
  • One analysis of an outstanding application
  • … and then we’ll rock the Q&A ’til the clock runs out

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MEET YOUR HOSTS

Our Facilitators

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Tom Campbell

Senior College Admissions Counselor & Essay Specialist • College Essay Guy

Tom (he/him), Senior College Counselor (Admissions Insider Offering), Essay Coach & Content Specialist, has spent 11+ years helping students and families navigate the college admissions process. He has worked across every side of admissions: first as an admissions officer at the College of the Holy Cross (his alma mater), then as an Assistant Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, and he was a college counselor at a selective Seattle independent school. He has also served four summers as a faculty member at College Horizons, an organization that supports Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students through the college process.

Tom works with deep empathy, rare insider knowledge, and a commitment to authentic storytelling that gets results. He specializes in helping students craft cohesive, compelling applications that stand out at highly selective schools, and brings firsthand admissions committee experience to every application and essay he reads.

A passionate Kacey Musgraves fan (all eras), breakfast burrito devotee, and committed space tourism skeptic, Tom embraces his quirks—and encourages students to do the same as they navigate the college process. Tom splits time between Los Angeles and his roots in coastal Maine.

Hanah Lim

Director of Workshops and Curriculum • College Essay Guy

Hanah (she/her) is a former high school English teacher and essay specialist who is passionate about helping demystify the college admission process for young people and their families. Before teaching English at the high school she attended growing up, she worked as a college consultant for students in Bangkok, Thailand, directed SAT prep centers in Irvine, California and worked with non-profit groups and as an AVID coordinator to help close the achievement gap. She has helped students in the college admissions process from different backgrounds from all over the world and has worked with over 5,000 students in her career.

She has helped her students, many of them first generation, get admitted into top universities like Harvard, Yale, Duke, Georgetown, UChicago, Harvard Law, Yale Law, and other great institutions. As a teacher and the Director of Workshops at CEG, Hanah has trained teachers and counselors internationally on how to take seniors through the college essay process.

She graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Education and is a credentialed single subject teacher. Hanah also oversees College Essay Guy’s essay and application workshop team and organizes speaking events and college application and essay workshops for students at schools and organizations in the US and around the world.