Tufts’ director of admissions, Lee Coffin, made this decision after being so impressed with a student video he famously remarked, “I thought, ‘If this kid applied to Tufts, I’d admit him in a minute, without anything else.’ ” With or without Tuft’s paradigm-changing decision, in the Internet age the college admissions video was inevitable. UTube officially arrived in 2009 when Tufts University invited applicants to submit an optional one-minute video. In the beginning text in the book, they talk about the emergence of the video college application essay:
This book is written by parents for students: “We are a husband and wife writing and filmmaking team who have worked together so long that finishing each other’s written sentences is literally our stock in trade.” If a college doesn’t want to look at your video, they simply won’t… but there’s every chance they will.Today, I’m reviewing a book entitled “How to Make a Winning College Application Video Essay” by Max Kiefer and Rosa Wolfe. In any case, providing the colleges to which you apply with a DVD or a link to a short video essay won’t hurt. Mary’s College have also begun inviting video submissions. George Mason University, William and Mary, and St. For a generation that has grown up swimming in social media, for whom images are a critical adjunct to communication, it’s hard to imagine that videos would not eventually become an element in the college sweepstakes.
Today, I’m reviewing a book entitled “How to Make a Winning College Application Video Essay” by Max Kiefer and Rosa Wolfe.
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