Find Your Mission helps you identify a real problem, write a plan to solve it and build the kind of story that college admissions teams remember.
4 one-on-one session hours to select the Hula project for your college app, identify essay prompts you will author, and create a plan to build your project.
Find Your Mission is for sophomore and junior year high school students looking to write an impact-oriented college essay. The course is comprised of 4 one-hour sessions to identify essay prompts to be written and a candidate project to generate data demonstrating student impact.
Admissions officers read thousands of essays. The ones that stand out show how students made a difference—to themselves or others—and that their impact will continue at their dream school. Find Your Mission helps your student identify a problem they care about and design a project around it—so when it’s time to write their college essay, they’ll already have a story that shows who they are and what they can do.
The process is based on Amazon’s “working backward” method. Students write a one-page press release that defines the problem they’ll solve and why it matters, followed by an outline of the project’s details, importance, and success metrics. It’s a tool used by teams across Amazon—and now, by students building meaningful projects with Hula.
University admissions want to know about you, your passion, and what you did to make an impact. Hula does not provide canned projects and essay narratives for students. We support students by helping them turn their ideas and original work into real projects and compelling essays.
