Yes, you do need a Zoom account to join the livestreams. If you don’t already have Zoom installed, you’ll be prompted to download it when you try to join the session.
If you plan to join a livestream, we suggest creating your Zoom account in advance, so you don’t miss the beginning of the session.
Each one-hour livestream session will focus on a specific aspect of the essay-writing process. Our college essay coaches will share their insight, offer advice, answer questions, and review submitted topics and drafts.
Yes. We understand that your college essay may deal with personal topics and vulnerable moments. All submitted topics, essay drafts, and questions will remain anonymous.
No. Our livestreams are free, and we invite you to join as many as you’d like. We hope that these sessions help you feel more prepared and confident as you get ready to submit your college application.
Get the most out of our Scribbr livestreams by keeping a few key tips in mind:
Tip #1. Check out our guide to writing an outstanding essay before your session
Our Knowledge Base covers every step of the essay writing process, and you’ll find our livestreams most helpful if you use these two resources together. For each livestream, we’ll highlight one or two helpful Knowledge Base articles as suggested advance reading.
Tip #2. Come with questions, and submit your drafts in advance
All Scribbr livestreams include plenty of question time, which is your chance to get individualized help. For “live review” sessions, you can also submit your topic or draft beforehand. We’ll choose a few submissions to review live during the session.
If you’re thinking about submitting a draft but are feeling anxious, don’t stress! Our coaches know that college essays often deal with vulnerable moments and personal topics. They always keep their recommendations positive and solution-focused. Even if revision is in your future, you’ll always leave feeling good about the process and proud of your hard work. Plus, we keep all submissions anonymous.
Tip #3. Feel free to lurk
Even if you don’t have a draft, an outline, or even a topic, feel free to join a session. You can learn a lot just by seeing how other students have approached their essays, and you’ll leave feeling inspired and excited about starting your own personal statement.
Tip #4. Pair our livestreams with our College Essay Editing & Coaching service
For the ultimate in essay writing help, follow up a livestream review with a full Scribbr edit of your admissions essay. Get your topic and outline checked during a livestream, and then make sure you’ve properly executed your plan and that your writing is flawless by having one of our experts do a full review.
Our team helps students graduate by offering:
Scribbr specializes in editing study-related documents. We proofread:
The Scribbr Plagiarism Checker is powered by elements of Turnitin’s Similarity Checker, namely the plagiarism detection software and the Internet Archive and Premium Scholarly Publications content databases.
The Scribbr Citation Generator is developed using the open-source Citation Style Language (CSL) project and Frank Bennett’s citeproc-js. It’s the same technology used by dozens of other popular citation tools, including Mendeley and Zotero.
You can find all the citation styles and locales used in the Scribbr Citation Generator in our publicly accessible repository on Github.
