The Advanced Personal Statement Course for Students
Uplevel your college essay with 4 brand new techniques
What’s in it for you:
You’ll learn how to stretch your writing skills and write an outstanding essay for college applications.
4 Advanced Techniques
Ones I’m not willing to teach on my introductory course.
Recorded Office Hours
Each recorded office hours sessions contain great questions and essays reviewed live.
Take the Essay Deeper
I’ll show you how to add insight into your essays to help colleges get a deeper sense of who you are.
Step-by-Step Guides
You’ll get a step-by-step guide on how to use each technique in your essay.
The Advanced Personal Statement Course for Students
This course is the result of requests from students to share more tools for digging deep and standing out on their college essays.
I’ll share with you brand new techniques for upleveling your college essay, plus step-by-step guides to using these techniques.
What makes this course advanced?
First, these techniques are a bit more difficult to pull off than the typical personal statement and, to be honest, some of the example essays I’ll cover are incredibly advanced. Like so advanced that I’ve been afraid to use these as examples in public blogs.
You’ll also get recordings from the weekly office hours with Andy Simpson (who co-developed this course with Ethan and who is in nearly every respect as good if not a better essay coach than Ethan, and) who takes you on a deeper dive into the week’s material while reviewing a new next-level example essay.
🔥To make this course accessible to everyone, I’m offering pay-what-you-can spots to any student who asks. 🔥
I’ve already written a pretty good essay. Will this course really help?
Absolutely. The goal of this course is to challenge you to think about the personal statement in ways you haven’t before.
A few more kind words from students who took the course
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We go way beyond the essentials
This course builds on the foundational content shared in my book and my How to Write a Personal Statement course—but you’ll learn a ton even if this is your first College Essay Guy course.
What makes this course different from your other courses?
- I recommend completing Modules 1 and 2 in my How to Write a Personal Statement course, as it’ll provide a foundation for some of the concepts I’ll be covering in this Advanced Course
- Deeper dive on fewer topics (we’ll focus on just two specific techniques each week)
- Longer recordings (2 hrs instead of 90 minutes)
- Recorded weekly office hours with Andy
- Example essays + concepts I’ve never shared before, including: A Brainstorming Exercise That Can Generate 10+ Topics in 5 Minutes and Seven Ways to Make a Personal Statement (More) Memorable
Course Content & Overview
Meet Ethan
Author of College Essay Essentials & College Admission Essentials
Ethan has been eating/sleeping/breathing college essays for most of his waking hours since 2003. He is an internationally recognized college essay and admissions expert and the author of the Amazon bestsellers College Essay Essentials and College Admission Essentials. Each year he and his team reach more than one million students and counselors through the College Essay Guy blog, online pay-what-you-can courses, workshops, books, and one-on-one work.
Receiving his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in Performance Studies, an MFA in Acting from UC Irvine, and two counseling certificates, Ethan’s educational experiences, reading, and training have informed his deep interest storytelling as a vehicle for personal development and growth, which in turn inspired Ethan to start College Essay Guy.
Raised in Spain, Ecuador, and Colombia, Ethan is dedicated to serving diverse communities. With a passion for access and equity, Ethan has provided quality resources for students, families and professional communities alike. Through his work he has supported, advised and counseled thousands of students through the complicated college search and application process, all while staying true to his core values of providing ease, purpose and joy in the process.
Meet Andy
Andrew Simpson has helped 10,000+ students on their journeys toward higher education. He attended Stanford and Oxford, earning degrees in Political Science and Drama.
He taught college classes in Los Angeles in Critical Thinking, Sociology, Anthropology of Media, Political Science, English Composition, and Public Speaking. He believes Myers-Briggs is flawed and there are better personality tests out there.
He has worked with Ethan for more than 15 years, is Ethan’s go-to coach when he gets stuck with a student, and this year joined College Essay Guy full-time.
Take your college essays to the next level
One Time Payment
- Exclusive Example Essays and Advanced Concepts
- Recordings of previous live sessions with Ethan and Andy
- Recorded Weekly Office Hours with Andy & Real Students
$297.00
Payment Plan
- Exclusive Example Essays and Advanced Concepts
- Recordings of previous live sessions with Ethan and Andy
- Recorded Weekly Office Hours with Andy & Real Students
$74.00 x 4 Months
Get 1-on-1 Support
- Develop a personalized college admissions plan.
- Create a comprehensive college list.
- Get help on academic planning, course selection, and getting teacher recommendations.
- Plan impactful summers and extracurricular involvement.
- Craft compelling essays.
Limited spots available.
Can’t afford this course? I’m offering pay-what-you-can spots
Access is really important to me. In fact, it’s at the heart of most of everything I do and is why so many resources on my site are free.
Request a pay-what-you-can spot. Don’t be shy; I’d love to have you.
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The Advanced Personal Statement Course
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I log in?
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Keep in mind that the Choose Your Own Adventure Tool is hosted on a different platform than our courses, so registration and a separate login are required for it. When you buy the course, you’ll get instructions on how to set up a Choose Your Own Adventure Tool account. If you can’t find the instruction email in your inbox or spam folder, email us at [email protected].
How long do I have to access the course?
Students have access to the course for one year from the date of purchase.
What if I can't afford it? What is “Pay-What-You-Can”?
Access is really important to all of us at College Essay Guy. It’s at the heart of most everything we do and is why so many resources on the site are free and pay-what-you-can. We offer pay-what-you-can spots for students from low-income homes. You can submit a request on this page at the links above. As this is something we are passionate about, we have an option to submit a pay-what-you-can request on each of our course pages.
Are essay reviews included in the purchase of this course?
Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee essay reviews as a part of this course.
Our team does provide one-on-one essay coaching with a team of veteran essay coaches and college counselors. Reach out and schedule a call to learn more here.
I have another question.
My FAQ page has you covered. Or, if you can’t find the answer there, shoot an email to my team: [email protected].