"Top Yale Grad -- College Essay Mentor. 25+ years' tutoring experience

$360/hr -- Full support for Common App main essay + activity list: $3600. UC PIQ essays + activity list: $7200. Combined Common App + UC PIQs: $9000.

My primary focus is helping university applicants with strategizing, planning, and revising their application essays. With twenty-five years' experience in teaching writing, I've earned a solid reputation for helping applicants garner admission to universities like Yale, Columbia, MIT, Princeton, and Brown. (See below.)

*Putting Your Mind At Ease*

The college application process can be immensely daunting, for students and parents alike. If you work with me, I will:

(a) break the workload down into achievable pieces;

(b) support you as you tackle the challenges of each essay; and

(c) help you make meaningful progress every session.

Our first meeting will identify themes for the personal statement; by our third meeting, we'll have a draft and a comprehensive action plan.

*Matriculations at Top-Tier Universities*

Each year I provide full-service support to seven or eight rising seniors, as well as to transfer and graduate-school applicants. Over the past five years students I’ve assisted have matriculated at:

- Amherst

- BU (Kilachand)

- Brown

- CalTech

- Claremont McKenna

- Columbia

- Dartmouth

- Duke

- George Washington

- Georgetown

- Georgia Tech

- Harvard

- King's College London

- MIT

- NYU

- Penn

- Politecnico di Milano

- Princeton

- Scripps

- Stanford

- U Toronto

- Tufts

- UC Berkeley

- USC

- Vanderbilt

- Wash U

- Wellesley

- William & Mary

- Wisconsin-Madison

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