Laurie
Filipelli
MA, MFA
Founder, Mighty Writing, LLC
College Access Counselor
Writing Coach
Poet
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I help students uncover their most powerful stories on the path to college admission.
College Access Coaching
As a certified College Access Coach, I help students explore personal beliefs, imagine possible career paths, and embrace their academic interests. We engage in meaningful conversation, use personal writing to develop ideas, and engage in online research. Taking ownership of the process, students build balanced college lists, craft resumes, ask for recommendation letters, and ready themselves to apply.
Application Essay Guidance
As a writer with years of teaching , coaching, and editing experience, I guide students to find their most compelling topics for college application essays. Together, we develop a strategic, personalized essay writing plan which includes a professional-level exchange of drafts and feedback. Through this rigorous process, students learn to shape meaningful stories into polished essays and put their best foot forward, whether applying to undergraduate, post-bacc, professional, or graduate programs
Writing for College Readiness
My first love as writer and thinker is poetry, and while I recognize that only a handful of clients may be aspiring poets, the gifts and skills poetry has given me—observation, analysis, attention to detail, empathy, structure, and imagination—help me guide students to become clear thinkers who can effectively structure and support a written argument. This work can give students a strong foundation early in their high school career, or provide a needed boost as a senior who has been accepted to college.