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Our High School Ambassador Denera Ragoonanan inspired this week’s prompt! Sometimes your interests don’t fit neatly into colleges’ departments and programs. Imagine that you had the opportunity to craft your own college major in preparation for your dream career. No limits. What are some of the…

Keep your imagination working with our prompts of the week!  If you follow us, we will offer fun prizes and discounts on essay tutoring.  We are waiting for your submissions so head on over to stcstoryup!

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Looking at University of Chicago?  Have any questions?  Check out their admissions tumblr!

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howtogetintoyourharvard:

A really interesting infographic on the role of social media in admissions processes.

Worried about admissions officers finding your tumblr or facebook?  Here’s a helpful infographic. 

21 Days of Summer has come to a close, but we want you to keep writing! As you’re getting back to the grind of school and classes, follow us at stcstoryup.tumblr.com for more resources about college admissions essays and the application process. This is another by students, for students blog.

So follow, follow, follow—stcstoryup.tumblr.com! 

In the next few days, we’ll be posting the three-sentence stories introducing you to our Ambassadors. 

Now that the 21 Days of Summer have concluded, here’s a quick review of the writing tips we’ve posted since the beginning.

Week 1—Throw Away Your Thesaurus: http://21daysofsummer.tumblr.com/post/25646736641/writing-tip-of-the-week-throw-away-your-thesaurus

Week 2—Have Fun:         http://21daysofsummer.tumblr.com/post/26022827262/writing-tip-of-the-week-have-fun

Week 3—Hook Them In: http://21daysofsummer.tumblr.com/post/26643516054/writing-tip-of-the-week-hook-them-in

Week 4—Be Vulnerable in Your College Application Essay:

http://21daysofsummer.tumblr.com/post/28051857688/writing-tip-of-the-week-be-vulnerable-in-your-college

Week 5—Sentence Length:

http://21daysofsummer.tumblr.com/post/28564506928/writing-tip-of-the-week-sentence-length-size-doesnt

Just because the 21 Days are over that doesn’t mean you should stop writing. If you complete all 21 Days and submit your writing to community@storytocollege.com by Labor Day, you could win a free Essay Completion Course in the fall or 3 hours of Skype coaching with Carol Barash, CEO and Founder.

Also, don’t forget to submit to this week’s contest http://21daysofsummer.tumblr.com/post/28933984997/contest-daydream-believer and tell us about your dreams! The submission deadline is Friday at midnight! 

Congratulations! If you are reading this, it means you survived junior year…What? We already did that? Oh whoops! Let’s try this again… 

Congratulations! If you are reading this, it means you survived Story To College’s 21 Days of Summer! We know it had its ups and downs, its boring parts and fun parts, its good jokes and bad jokes, but you made it!

Now it’s time to get your discount. Send in all of your work, and reap the benefits of your hard labor.

We’re at community@storytocollege.com.

Have your submissions in by Labor Day weekend to be considered for the grand prize of a FREE Essay Completion Course or 3 hours of Skype coaching with Carol Barash, CEO and Founder. 

You can go back to watching My Strange Addiction now. 

If you’ve missed a few of the 21 Days, click this link  http://21daysofsummer.tumblr.com/post/28632934221/confused-about-where-to-start-here-are-links-to-days to view the prompts from the beginning!

We’re still hyped about the Olympics here at the Story To College office! After the U.S.A. women’s gymnastic team won the gold and Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian in history, we just kept telling stories about it.

By now, you’ve probably seen the P&G “Raising an Olympian” videos on YouTube.  If you haven’t, beware if you start watching them, you’ll never want to stop (here’s the one of Gabby Douglas, the women’s gymnastics all-around gold medal winner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbhzLI-vNjE).

All these interviews of parents and family members discuss the personal goals and achievements of our favorite medalists. Here’s your chance to write about your goals! Craft a story about one of your goals, maybe it’s joining the Olympic team or hitting the Broadway stage or helping cure cancer! Tell us about the moment that you decided to add this goal to your bucket list!

You’ll have until midnight on Friday August 10^th to submit your story.
And the prize this week is an hour of Skype coaching or $50 off the all day Essay Completion Course (on August 27^th)—you choose! 

If you’ve missed a few of the 21 Days, click this link  http://21daysofsummer.tumblr.com/post/28632934221/confused-about-where-to-start-here-are-links-to-days to view the prompts from the beginning!  

Haven’t had the chance to visit your top schools yet? Don’t have the opportunity to go across the country to see a campus? 
Well, you stop worrying. Several colleges and universities are using the internet to make campus tour resources available to students everywhere. Check out this NY Times article about the growing popularity of virtual campus tours!

Remember on Day 1 when we congratulated you for making it through junior year? We forgot to mention one tiny thing…the fall of your senior year is nearly as tough as junior year.

Luckily, you stuck with Story To College for 20 whole days, so you are way more prepared than most rising seniors.

With that said, we want to make sure you take care of yourself when the going gets tough. So find a few things that help you relax. Maybe it’s reading a book or listening to music. Maybe it’s cow-tipping. Whatever floats your boat. Just find healthy outlets for your stress, so you make it to college in one piece.

Finally, don’t forget Day 2: reach out to your friends. Support each other. Cry when you need to, laugh whenever you can. (And watch Cruel Intentions as often as possible).

If you’ve missed a few of the 21 Days, click this link  http://21daysofsummer.tumblr.com/post/28632934221/confused-about-where-to-start-here-are-links-to-days to view the prompts from the beginning!  

Congratulations! The winner for this week’s contest is bafflinglauren.tumblr.com. Her ice cream story wowed our Ambassadors and the rest of the office here at Story To College. As the winner, she’ll be receiving a bright teal Story To College t-shirt. Look out for our next contest on Tuesday!

Want to read her story? Check it out below:

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