Agora

🏆 Highlights from the Agora Football Cup! On July 26th, we organized the first sport event for our Agora Alumni. It was football. And it was free for all. Kalokagathia is an ancient greek concept about the unity of fitness with intellect. That, mental growth entails physical one too. And that's the unity our alumni so…

We opened application for Homer Community. 🏛 Apply: agorawriting.com/programs/agora-writing

🏛 You're writing for one reader in admissions world. And you'll never meet them. Every college application has an audience of exactly one. The admissions officer who opens your file, reads, decides, and moves on to the next. They give it four minutes or five if your first line earns it. They've read thousands of essay…

The hard part of applying is doing it blind. You can spend a year building the whole thing, essay, activities, the story that ties it together, and never once hear from the only person whose vote counts. The one who sat in the room and said yes, or no, or "let's waitlist and see what spring looks like." Everyone else i…

A bit about the person joining us, before we make it official later today. She spent years reading applications for one of the most selective universities in the whole world. She was in the reading room, both undergrad and grad, where your whole file gets a number from one to six before the decision is made. She saw th…