CEG’s Big Counselor Resource Drop: Tools Your Students Can Use This Week

Join us for a free live webinar where we open up the CEG resource vault and take you on a fast-moving, interactive tour through our newest tools for high school counselors (the ones that go way beyond the college essay).

We’ll cover:

A tour of TWO newly designed resource hubs loaded with specific, immediately useful resources you use with seniors working on apps right now
A walkthrough of our supplemental essay guides for 70+ colleges and universities
A brand new exercise toolkit (maybe even two) for helping 9th and 10th graders explore who they are
An updated (and fully editable!) set of Google Slides covering everything from personal statements to list-building
Guidance on talking to students and parents about AI
Advice for putting it all to use right away (you’ll leave with a comprehensive packet)

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MEET YOUR HOSTS

Our Facilitators

Ethan Sawyer

Founder • College Essay Guy

Ethan Sawyer is the founder of College Essay Guy which means he 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 in storytelling as a vehicle for personal development and growth, which in turn inspired Ethan to start College Essay Guy.

Tillie Gottlieb

Senior College Counselor · College Essay Guy

With 15+ years of experience, Tillie brings a global, insider perspective to college admissions, with a background spanning admissions, elite boarding schools, private counseling in Southeast Asia, and leadership as a Co-Director of College Counseling in the Bay Area.

She’s helped students get into top colleges nationwide—but more importantly, she helps them build applications that actually make sense and feel like them. Tillie specializes in guiding students—especially in STEM, business, social sciences, and the arts—toward clear, cohesive, and compelling stories.

Known for her sharp eye, deep listening, and sense of humor, she makes a high-stakes process feel a lot more manageable. Filmmaker, former ballet dancer, game show competitor, and guac enthusiast—she brings both creativity and real talk to the process.

Hanah Lim

Director of Workshops and Curriculum • College Essay Guy

Hanah Lim is the Director of Workshops and Curriculum at College Essay Guy. She 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, and directed SAT prep centers in Irvine, California. She was an EL coordinator and an AVID teacher/coordinator at a public high school in California and made it her goal to help close the achievement gap.

In addition to coaching seniors write their college essays, Hanah has also trained teachers and counselors internationally on how to take students 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. As part of her work, Hanah oversees CEG’s workshop and curriculum programs and organizes college application and essay workshops for students at schools and organizations in the US and around the world. Hanah finds joy in watching musicals, visiting Disney parks with her husband, and playing with her two cats.