
It doesn’t have to be about starting a company, winning the championship, hiking the Andes, overcoming personal tragedy, or changing someone’s life forever.
It doesn’t have to be the most impressive thing anyone has ever done.

Your story is all the things that make you, you—what excites you, what you notice, what makes you laugh, what scares you to death. It’s about what you’ve achieved, what you’ve screwed up, what you’ve learned, and how you want to make a difference.

Maybe you already know what you want to write about. Maybe you have six ideas and hate all of them. Maybe you’ve been staring at a blank document thinking:
Your GPA.
Your test scores.
Your transcript.
Your extracurriculars.
Those aren’t what make you stand out.

Before we worry about topics, openings, word counts, or any of that, we want to get to know you.

What you care about.
What you love.
What you’re good at.
What you struggle with.
What makes you laugh.
What makes you weird.
What you’re proud of—and maybe what you’re not.

It’s not an interview and there aren’t any right or wrong answers. We’re looking for the experiences, interests, relationships, quirks, and moments that say something about who you are.
Some of them may seem completely ordinary to you.

If you already have a topic you love, great. Let’s dig into what makes it yours. If you have no idea what to write about, that’s fine too.
Once we know what you want an admissions officer to understand about you, we’ll find the story that helps them see it.
The essay is yours.
No one can write it for you. It’s your story and it should sound like you.
Once you have a draft, we’ll work through it together—where it works, where it doesn’t, and where you’ve got something amazing hiding just out of sight.
We’ll start with the big things: the story, the structure, the focus, and whether the essay is saying what you want it to say.
Then we’ll work on the writing itself—clarity, details, rhythm, transitions, word choice, grammar. We’ll make the writing stronger without making it sound like someone else wrote it.
When we’re finished, you don’t want an admissions officer thinking:
Wow, somebody really edited this student’s essay.
You want them thinking:
That’s the goal.
Not the fanciest essay. Not the biggest words. Not the most dramatic story.
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