Nothing Can Stop Me:
An Open Book on Transfer Application Essays
by Marcie Wald, LCSW

Nothing Can Stop Me: An Open Book on Transfer Application Essays is the result of one year's sabbatical and many years' frustration with a lack of transfer essay guidance for community college students.

Community college transfer students aren't writing about proms and driving tests in their application essays. Instead, they're writing about raising children, learning English in order to complete degrees begun in other countries, starting businesses, and designing robotic tools in class. Finally, here is a book that offers critiques of essays that reflect the maturity and life circumstances of community college students. Suggestions and cautions come from university admission professionals throughout California as well as other states.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

The book includes many actual transfer essays as samples and provides detailed critique of each. Its guidance is also useful in the writing of scholarship application essays. California State Lieutenant Governor Cruz M. Bustamante, an advocate for community college students, was generous enough to write the foreword to the book. Although community college students often feel invisible in the higher educational system, this book shows that they are not.

If you would like to hire Marcie to critique your essay, please contact her at: (831) 588-5499 or . Marcie will not review essays fewer than 7 days before the application deadline, and she is not available to review essays on the same day she is contacted.

For a summary of some transfer essay suggestions, please use this link.