Raleigh College Application Assistance

Assistance with Applications & Essays

College Application Assistance in Raleigh & Southern Pines

Every year Perry works with a number of rising seniors in Southern Pines and Raleigh, providing college application assistance and help with writing college application essays. This is the Applications and Essays service. This process typically begins as soon as possible after school is out for the junior year, assuming the student has a pretty good idea of the colleges they want to apply to. The objective is to get as much of this work done as possible before the beginning of the senior year so that as the school year begins the student can focus on their classes and on getting applications submitted by their deadlines. Most students are submitting to many of their colleges by the Early Action deadlines, typically between October 15 and late November.

Perry and his associate, Carolyn, work as a team to provide their writing and essay tutoring services. Carolyn helps students with their Common Application or other applications. She has been doing this for over 25 years, is very efficient and organized with it, and the students enjoy working with her. Along with all of the student's data, she helps them organize and describe their activities and honors to be sure they make a good impression and everything is in the proper format and location.

Perry specializes in college writing and essay tutoring to help students succeed. Of course, the student will do the writing, but Perry will help them choose a topic for each essay and offer suggestions as to what's helpful to include or not include. He'll also do careful proofreading for grammar and punctuation. Applications require a main essay and then colleges can ask for whatever supplemental, typically shorter essays or questions they may desire; the average has been between two and three supplemental essays per college. Some common questions like, "Tell us about one of your extracurricular activities," can be used with more than one college. Depending on the college list, the essays can be a substantial amount of work, which is the reason Perry suggests everyone get started early in the summer. The prompts for the Common Application main essay are typically announced well in advance. Colleges may not make their supplemental essay list official until August I, but they don't typically change that much, so students can work on their essays early in the summer with minimal risk that they will need to revise after August 1.

For any questions about the College Application Assistance program in Raleigh and Southern Pines, feel free to give Perry a call at 910-528-5595. He's also happy to do a complimentary consultation, so that the student can participate in the discussion about how all this works and make sure they are comfortable. You can schedule that meeting with this link. https://ScheduleAppointmentsWithPerry.as.me/ComplimentaryConsultationZoom