Upcoming Live courses & programs
Each of our live courses comes with on demand content and a schedule of live sessions with Ethan or an industry expert. Click on the pages below to learn more.
Counselor Training Program
2024 registration is open now!
The Counselor Training Program is a professional development and learning community that equips college counselors with the tools, skills, and resources they need to more confidently guide students through the college admission process.
The program is taught through a combination of 60-min workshops, 4-week courses, practicum sessions with other counselors taking the course, plus collaborative discussion in the learning community.
It is, as far as I know, the most comprehensive professional development program of its kind and unlike anything else that exists for college counselors and educational consultants.
Helping Students Apply to Highly Selective Universities
Live Sessions begin April 11th, 2024.
Led by Tom Campbell and Ethan Sawyer, this course will cover all things highly selective admissions. Counselors will leave with a clearer understanding of the current selective admissions landscape (and what’s changed in recent years), an inside look at how admissions officers read applications, and case studies of successful applicants.
MY TWO-PART COLLEGE ESSAY & APPLICATION COURSE SERIES
Watch Them On Demand:
How to Write A Personal Statement
Part 1 of the Counselor Training Program. A comprehensive live video course for college counselors, English teachers, and other educators on guiding students through writing a great college personal statement.
- 25+ Video Modules
- 30+ Sample Essays
- From working with students one-on-one all the way to large groups
How to Write the College Application + Supplemental Essays
Part 2 of the Counselor Training Program. A comprehensive live video course for counselors on college list building, the activities list, additional info section, and tons of supplemental essays for the most competitive schools.
- Course workbook
- 30+ Video Modules
- 30 Sample Essays
The College CouNselor Course Bundle
Here's your chance to combine our two most popular courses with access to any three of our mini-courses and our counselor community.
Mini-Courses Include:
- How to Build a Great College List
- How to Write the UC Personal Insight Questions
- Practical Coaching Strategies for the Average Writer
- How to Make College Affordable
- Helping Students Apply to Highly Selective Colleges
- How to Give Great Essay Feedback
Save Money • Uplevel Your Counseling • Find Your People
On Demand courses (Watch Anytime)
Don’t want to wait? We also have a huge range of courses you can start watching right away. Some of our most popular include:
How To Write the UC Personal Insight Questions
A comprehensive video course for counselors on helping students apply to the University of California School school system and writing those pesky Personal Insight Questions.
30+ Video Lessons & exercises
Detailed Steps for each of the 8 PIQs
How to Build A Balanced College List
The Mission: crafting a great college list for each of your students. The Method: A mini-course covering the latest list-building methods and techniques from a nationally-recognized expert.
Spend four hours with Ethan and Dr. Steven Antonoff to craft informed, appealing, even outside-of-the-box college lists for your students.
How to Work Effectively with Multilingual Students
Our course is led by Rene Caputo, who has been teaching and coaching multilingual writers for over 20 years and who serves as the ESL specialist for Duke University’s writing program. You’ll discover what strategies you can use with students who have more experience with speaking English rather than writing in English, and what resources might support your students with improving their language use and word choice for an audience of US admissions readers
How to Help Students Stand Out With Common Personal Statement Topics
The “soccer” essay. The “family challenges” essay. And, of course, the “inspiring person who is totally not the student” essay. How can students make these ideas work, come up with alternate topics that might work better—and how can they tell the difference? We answer the most important questions counselors face when working with a student on their essays.
Practical Coaching Strategies for the Average Student Writer
I partnered with Lyn Fairchild Hawks—college essay coach and author—to offer specific and practical strategies to help students of varying writing abilities tell powerful stories, offer meaningful insight, and complete serious revisions on their college essays.
How to Design and Run an Effective College Counseling Department
Spend 6 hours with Ethan and Mr. Sanjay Mitchell to get equipped with practical strategies and resources to make your counseling program more efficient without compromising care or equity for you or your students/families.
How to Give Great Essay Feedback
Back by popular demand, we've put together another end-of-year mini-course on how to provide concise, insightful feedback on a student’s essay draft. We’re bringing on several experts from the CEG team (and Ethan) to provide you with a broad range of perspectives on this critical point in the application process.
All proceeds from registrations will benefit the Matchlighters Scholars program.
How to Write Better Recommendations in Less Time
Join us and a panel of college counseling experts in an 1.5 hour session to learn how to navigate through the recommendation letter writing process,
This is a fundraiser for the Western Association for College Admission Counseling (WACAC).
The Advanced Personal Statement Course for Counselors
Are you a college counselor or essay coach looking to take your essay coaching to another level? Looking for techniques and resources to help your students dig deep and get creative in how they tell their story?
Over four weeks, I will introduce brand new techniques for counselors by sharing step-by-step guides, live meetings and answering all of your questions.
How to Make College Affordable Mini-Course
Led by our friend and colleague Amanda Miller, this professional development workshop will deliver knowledge you can use immediately in your conversations with students and their families as they begin building their college lists choose among the many wonderful offers you’ve helped guide them to.
ADDITIONAL HELPFUL RESOURCES AND WORKSHOPS
How To Lead A Life-changing College Essay Workshop
A comprehensive, step-by-step video course for helping counselors lead a life-changing college essay workshop for their students.
4+ Video Modules & 45-page Workbook
The Essay Workshop In A Box
A curriculum for counselors on delivering a virtual or in-person essay workshop including: videos, lessons, worksheets and brainstorming activities.
Videos & Course E-Textbook
College Essay Guy Live
Summer Boot Camps for Schools and Organizations
What is it? A series of live virtual summer workshops and college essay resources to help your students create outstanding college applications.
I'll walk your students through the process of learning how to write and revise their personal statement and the most popular supplemental essays, while you focus on helping them through the rest of the process.
Counselors at high schools, non-profits, and community based organizations (CBO’s) are invited to join.
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