This is the offical fan page for Freddi Greenberg's Purple Pen College Essay Advisory. For more information visit: www.purplepenessays.com.
Purple Pen College Essay Advisory is a comprehensive, one-on-one editorial service that takes college applicants through the entire college essay and statement writing process. The college admissions process has become more selective than ever. For this reason, well-conceived and written essays have become a critical way for admissions counselors to get to know applicants, transforming them from s
tats on a page to living, breathing individuals. One-on-one coaching with Purple Pen College Essay Advisory helps each student focus on a personal narrative that reveals his or her character, empathy, maturity, college readiness and ambition as well as intellect. Among their many tasks, college admissions counselors are charged with assembling classes that function not only academically but also as a community. Student essays can provide them with the valuable information needed to do this. Biography
Before launching Purple Pen College Essay Advisory, Freddi Greenberg had a successful career in magazine publishing. As a former senior level editor, then editor in chief of several national magazines (Redbook, Self, Child, American Health for Women, Nick Jr. Family), Freddi is an expert at accessible communication. She's able to help students and professionals at every age and stage find and develop their voices and maximize clarity, accuracy and conviction in their writing. After over 20 years creating and covering parenting content she's equally qualified to communicate effectively—and with empathy—with teens during the challenging college application process. Her personal experience as a mother of five college and graduate school graduates has proven extremely valuable as a resource for current student clients. In addition to her professional and personal experience with the writing process, she has also been the director of New York University’s Summer Publishing Institute, the Editorial Director of The Child Mind Institute and an essay advisor with College Bound Initiative, an organization that places college guidance experts in high need schools. She is also a member of NACAC (National Association of College Admissions Counselors).
