Maybe you haven’t written a word yet.
Maybe you have a topic but don’t know what to do with it.
Maybe you’ve finished a draft and need a fresh set of eyes.
We’ll spend 60–90 minutes learning about your interests, experiences, accomplishments, failures, obsessions, quirks, and the stories you may not realize are stories yet.
We’ll talk about what you want an admissions officer to understand about you and find the stories that can help them see it. You’ll leave with a clear direction for your essay.
If you decide to continue with The Core App, the full $300 will be credited toward it.
Best for: Students who need help finding their story before they start writing.
The Core App includes The Brainstorm, and then we really get to work.
We’ll collaborate through the entire process: figuring out what you want your Personal Statement (or equivalent essay) to say about you, finding the right story to tell it, writing it, revising it, and polishing it to the last word.
Includes The Brainstorm, story and structure coaching, feedback throughout the drafting process, three full rounds of revision/editing, and final polish.
The result will still be you. Your words. Your voice. The strongest version of your story there on the page.
Best for: Students who will benefit from professional guidance through the entire Personal Statement process.
($1,200 when bundled with Core App)
We’ll work on up to four college-specific supplemental essays or short responses (up to 1,500 words total).
That includes brainstorming and strategy for each prompt, help finding the right approach, structural and content feedback, up to two revision rounds per essay, and final polish.
A good supplemental essay shouldn’t sound like a boilerplate answer you could send to twenty different schools. We’ll dig into the question they’re really asking—and your answer will give them another reason to remember you.
Best for: Students applying to schools with supplemental writing requirements.
(A savings of $300)
Everything in The Core App, plus up to four supplemental essays or short responses (up to 1,500 words total).
A 650-word Personal Statement gives you the opportunity to tell an admissions officer an important part of your story.
Supplemental essays give you the opportunity to show them even more.
We’ll look at all of your essays as a whole—choosing stories, experiences, and perspectives that reveal different sides of you and build a more complete picture of who you are.
Maybe your main essay shows your resilience. Another reveals your curiosity. Another lets your sense of humor come through.
Each essay gives them something new. Something to remember.
Together, they tell a fuller story of what makes you, you.
Best for: Students who will benefit from comprehensive essay support throughout their applications.
Scholarship essays are different from college admissions essays. You’re still showing the reader who you are, but you’re also making a case for why you should receive a limited award from a competitive pool of applicants.
We’ll work on up to three distinct scholarship essays, up to 1,000 total words.
We’ll identify the experiences and themes that best answer each prompt, find the strongest way to make your case, and figure out where your best material can be adapted without sounding recycled.
Includes brainstorming and strategy, up to two revision rounds per essay, and final polish.
Best for: Students looking to stand out in a competitive scholarship process.
There’s still time to make sure your essay is as strong as it can be.
Bring us a substantially complete college or scholarship essay, and we’ll help strengthen its structure, clarity, voice, pacing, and word economy, then give it a final line edit for grammar and polish.
Turnaround within 48 hours, subject to availability.
This service is designed for an existing draft—not brainstorming a topic or rebuilding an essay from scratch.
Best for: Students who are close to the finish line and need experienced editorial help getting across it.
If you need additional essay coaching, editing, or help with something that isn’t covered above, we’ll figure out what you need before we start.
Tell us where you are in the process, what you’re applying for, and when it’s due.
We’ll tell you what we think will help—and what you don’t need to pay for.
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