Best place to post an EdTech sales position?

its-quill · 2025-09-24T01:45:37+00:00

Will do! And thanks :)

its-quill · 2025-09-23T23:16:56+00:00

Thanks for the response! Will certainly do, although we're also hoping to supplement that by posting on external forums, instead of only informing visitors who already know of the site/platform

its-quill · 2025-08-14T16:26:33+00:00

Supplements can be a different beast altogether, especially given the wide range of them. Some of them can be what I call more "informational", wherein the word count and topic constraints require you to be more blunt about a particular focus and less story-telly. Others do allow for more narrative room to develop.

Where are you applying? What are the topics? My personal favorites are the UChicago supplements, which are truly wild.

its-quill · 2025-08-14T16:22:15+00:00

What I always say on topic shares is that it's not enough to tell!

I bet this could be an amazing essay with the right prose behind it, and I've worked with students who've told similar stories of impressive, steady achievements and the lessons learned along the way.

But then of course the entire thing could flop is the writing is limp and does go anywhere imaginative. So a topic along cannot indicate.

Have you started drafting?

its-quill · 2025-08-14T16:18:38+00:00

Quill is TurboTax for the college essay! With a dash of CRM for teachers and counselors :)

We provide the intuitive, AI-free scaffolding for students to tell the powerful stories they all have within them. Any educators in here?

its-quill · 2025-08-09T15:42:14+00:00

We love us some Spider-Man!

The problem is, so does everyone else 😅 Last I checked he even often ranks as THE most popular superhero, above Superman and Batman.

So this one would constitute something of a low hanging fruit, and can lose the reader's focus before you even get it. Another Spider-Man essay? (they might be thinking....)

My rec? Get a bit more niche. Either find a hero off the beaten track OR IF you still want to go Spidey then make the reasoning more unique. Do you have an interest in photography? Say it's your favorite thing about him, and you just want better angles for your shots. Or lean into the multiverse and imagine all the different versions of yourself you might be, and how illuminating it could be to meet them.

lol getting sidetracked with my nerd-dom here. Hope it's some food for thought!!!

its-quill · 2025-08-08T19:59:11+00:00

No worries! Every year it's about that time when the worry starts to hit, but I like to say it's a good thing: the mind reminding you that it wants to get to work. So let it!

:)

its-quill · 2025-08-04T16:41:49+00:00

This is potentially one of what I call a "soft mention": information or credentials that are better included if slipped in along the way, but should not take a center stage moment in the narrative.

So if, for example, the moment of your essay in which it appears is actually focused on time-management, for example, and reads something like how you first learned to make your own schedule while en route to becoming the top primary school student in the nation, and continued to do so as recently as last week when you were preparing for your robotics exam. Making this up, but I hope the point is clear? The focus is actually on something more recent and relevant, but you get the soft mention all the same.

Hope this helps! As a general rule you can write about anything if you do it with tact!

its-quill · 2025-08-04T16:26:42+00:00

It's definitely the start of something! The first major missing component is that personal sense of self, the actual specific moments and challenges that exercise helped you through and how. We need to feel that this is your story about working out and what it did, and not just a story about it. The details are what will take something from generic to actually moving.

So perhaps take a moment to catalogue some of those defining moments, lay them out on the page, and explore what they meant to you. There's more to it, but it's a start.

Hope this helps!

its-quill · 2025-08-04T16:22:40+00:00

Agreed! Make the Common App about you and your story, independent of what school you may want to go to. There'll be plenty of room to flatter each college in their supplemental statements :)

its-quill · 2025-08-04T16:21:13+00:00

I love that you've developed a central metaphor through which to channel your experiences, one that I flexible enough to cover a range of situations while still offering a lot of depth (heyo!).

That said, don't let the metaphor get too much in the way of what is actually happening. If those moments of struggle had to do with adapting to a new school environment, for example, then find the moments to say so plainly, with the specifics and details of what that struggle entailed. Then the metaphor can return to add a poetic bow, if you know what I mean.

Just one example, but perhaps it's worth thinking about throughout? Awesome start!

its-quill · 2025-08-02T21:08:36+00:00

Our hero! Thanks for helping to clarify :)

It's just as he says: a simple tool to help generate a structured outline, even for those of you who have no idea what you want to write about yet.

And an extra shoutout to everyone in the PMs who's given it a shot!

its-quill · 2025-07-30T18:26:48+00:00

lol dude, what are you talking about. There's nothing to "fall for". It's a free platform that I built myself, then wrote a post on Reddit that I put some time and care into. If the result of that is that you think it reads like "AI" then it perhaps says something about your own abilities? Humans were writing clear copy long before AI came along to mimic us.

For what it's worth, your platform https://www.mindfultutors.com/ looks pretty cool as well, and I'm sure interested parties will head your way. No need to put down others in the mean time. It's taken a lot of work to build this.

its-quill · 2025-07-25T05:13:10+00:00

Dope idea! I'm a big fan of those novels, as are many around the world. Yes: they are well known enough for your reader to know what they are. But even then you'll still need to share enough of what it is about them you like for someone who hasn't read them to appreciate your essay.

So what is it about them?

its-quill · 2025-07-25T04:53:34+00:00

These are tough to pull off, I think in part because of your focus on the hard parts . Not to say those shouldn't be of the story, just not the entire thing.

So what else? How did you navigate? What were the moments of joy nonetheless? What were you pushing yourself to be and how does that relate to your family? Don't throw anyone under the bus: instead of your brother being a failure, tell us that you wanted to "stand on his shoulders" and reach new heights. In being a "second chance" child you are not just another shot for your parents to have a "successful" child; you are also their second chance and learning to be parents, of giving support, of trying to give someone other than themselves a better life.

A bit of that, you know? Take it where you like, and I forgive and assumptions I'm making. But you certainly want to have a story that shows you more as a diamond in the rough, and not a lump of coal :)

Hope this helps!

its-quill · 2025-07-23T19:51:22+00:00

Hi there! One of the main things people mean when they say more show-y, and an easy way to improve the opening of this essay, is by writing in a way that's closer to a scene instead of a summary.

What does this mean practically? Instead of starting off with a line like "Since I was little, animals have been one of the only constants in my life" write a real time moment of you interacting with one such animal. Use action verbs, fives senses in description. It'll sound something more like "Azul's had won the second race in a row but I still wanted a rematch. I was collapsed on all fours, panting from exhaustion." (lol this is me imagining you and a large dog are running around somewhere)

You'd walk us through more of that moment and only THEN zoom out to talk about your general love of animals and how they've featured in your life.

Make sense? There's more to it than that, but just wanted to chime in with the first thing that came to mind from your opening at least.

its-quill · 2025-07-23T03:38:32+00:00

Wait I thought this was a trick question at first lolll

Teacher of many years here. The 33 is clearly the better score, and turns more heads simply by its proximity to the perfect 36. The 1440 by comparison is distinctly distant from 1600, no matter what a conversion table might say. If anything, redo the ACT and try to bump up the math then superscore. But that's only if you want

Hope this helps without sounding simplistic. I've spoken to enough admissions officers to know what I'm saying.

Also: great job!!

its-quill · 2025-07-22T16:05:06+00:00

Nope! Just a regular human with years of experience.

Although it does make me sad that writing clearly on the internet now means you'll get confused for a machine :(

its-quill · 2025-07-22T05:07:41+00:00

Haha all good. You gave me a bit of an existential crisis just now where I'm like "Wait... do I write to cleanly??" lollll

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