College Essay Boot Camp

Name: College Essay Boot Camp
Start: 2026-07-13T06:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-17T08:00:00-04:00
Location: Online

Date

Jul 13 - 17 2026

Time

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Cost

$1,000.00

Location

Online

Goal: To write an outstanding main Common App Essay plus 1 supplemental essay, plus gain writing skills to complete the rest of their essays on their own.

Bonus: Hot tips for making an Activity List Pop!

Class is limited in size so sign up as soon as possible. Course includes 1 30-minute private session scheduled with the student.

$1,000 per student, with a discount of $900 each for sibling. First come, first serve.

Book Event

July Boot Camp

1,000

Available Tickets: 10

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August Boot Camp

1,000

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Sibling Discount

$100.00

Available Tickets: 10

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Organizer

Marci Darling

With degrees from Harvard, UCLA, and Stanford and more than three decades of college essay consulting with clients gaining admission to Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Harvard, U Penn, U Chicago, MIT, U Chicago, Oxford, St. Andrew's, and all UC's, Marci Darling's track record for working with students is incomparable. Known for her fun stress-free consulting and unique writing prompts designed to optimize personality, charm, heart, and humor, students often surprise themselves with storytelling skills they didn't know they had! As an award-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, and popular college faculty, students flourish under Marci Darling's tutelage.

WORKSHOP REVIEWS

Marci Darling's Diva Writing Workshop helped me tap into my innate creativity and get out of my head. Marci's passion for the written word and storytelling are contagious and inspiring.

Marci Darling is like a whimsical muse with a Harvard degree. Her writing class was an amazing experience. She managed to weave together a combination of igniting conversation about writing, inspiring thoughts, deeply soulful writing prompts, and valuable feedback. It’s enough inspiration to nudge any budding writer into serious action. She shows you how to prioritize writing, so that life does not get in the way. I recommend her writing class to everyone I know.

Marci Darling’s writing workshop was absolutely fantastic! I loved every second of it. Marci has so much knowledge about writing and presented it in such a fun and enlightening way. It was very uplifting and helped me get my story written down. Learning about specific writing techniques that I could use to make my own story jump off the page was just one take away. Others were learning about the creative part of myself and how to tap into it. Also feeling the support from this workshop inspired me to explore and become more fearless in my own personal journey. Marci’s feedback on my writing was invaluable. She is so gifted at writing a great story and I found her input to be very insightful and useful. I would highly recommend this workshop for anyone, from the newbie beginner to the more advanced writer. You will not only gain writing knowledge, but also learn about yourself while having a complete blast! Marci’s light shines bright and is wonderfully contagious!

If you are an aspiring writer, taking Marci’s writing class is the best gift you can give yourself. You will learn how to catch the reader’s attention using metaphor, humor, sensory imagery, and powerful beginning and ending lines. She has you explore other amazing writers whose work will inspire and guide you and uses magical writing prompts to stimulate your imagination. Marci is right there with you, cheerleading and supporting the entire time, and will give you invaluable feedback on your work.

Your Diva Writing workshops made me fall in love with writing again! Your enthusiasm for the written word has rubbed off on me. It's like I have a crush on writing and I wake up in the morning with the burning desire to pour my heart and soul onto the page. Taking this course was the best gift I gave to myself!

I’m so grateful and thankful that Marci Darling shares her gift and mentorship in such a free, magical, whimsical way. I am better for having met and experienced the one and only Marci Darling!

I took Marci Darling 's Travel Writing Master Class & it was rejuvenating, informative, and inspiring! It reignited my writer's spark ... I want to start observing more & writing down my impressions or when I hear combinations of words! If you are able, I would take this class!

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