Get Feedback

After you’ve drafted your application, give a copy to your coach and ask them to take several days to look it over. Using the Application Critique Guide, they will analyze your answers and generate constructive feedback. Then, schedule a couple of hours to walk through this feedback with them.

During the feedback session, make sure that you are psychologically open to any and all criticism. If you’re defensive and closed off, the feedback will be useless. Just remember that the vast majority of Echoing Green Fellows voluntarily subjected themselves to this kind of challenging feedback and were better off for it in the long-run.

On the other hand, if your coach doesn’t offer many critiques of your application, be sure to push them to really challenge you. It’s up to you to make clear to your coach that you not only want this kind of feedback, but that you need it!

5) Revise and submit your application