Escape Essay Hell!: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Narrative College Application Essays

Escape Essay Hell! is a fast-and-easy guide to writing narrative-style essays for college application essays.

Janine Robinson, a former journalist, magazine editor and English teacher who has tutored college-bound students on these essays for the last decade, acts as a personal writing coach to guide and cheer students through this dreaded process.

College admissions experts advise students to "Tell a story" or "Make the essay about you!" or "Stand out!"

And this is all correct. But no one eve...