College Application & Essay Coaching

from $250.00

Achieve the best possible chances of admission with one-on-one guidance through the college application process, starting in the summer before senior year.

College application and essay coaching includes:

  • One-on-one Zoom sessions with Emily, a Princeton graduate and experienced admissions consultant

  • Assistance crafting a balanced college list with safeties, targets, and reaches that make sense for each student's profile and goals

  • High-level admissions strategy — what aspects of your story will have the best impact on your admissions chances? What should you choose to highlight or downplay when crafting your applicant profile? Should you apply EA, REA, or ED? What are your chances of admission?

  • Patient coaching through the entire essay process: brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and revising

  • Examples of real college essays that worked for the Ivy League

  • Help meeting deadlines with minimal stress and anxiety

We can work on:

  • Personal Statement (main Common App essay)

  • Supplemental essays for each college

  • UC system Personal Insight Questions

  • Activities List, Awards List, and Additional Information section

  • Requesting strong Letters of Recommendation from teachers and mentors

  • Preparing for interviews

  • Finding scholarships and preparing scholarship applications

All of the hard work that students put in throughout high school doesn't count if it isn't clearly presented in the application and essays. Make the most of your achievements and avoid common mistakes.

Read what past students and parents have had to say here.

Hours:

Achieve the best possible chances of admission with one-on-one guidance through the college application process, starting in the summer before senior year.

College application and essay coaching includes:

  • One-on-one Zoom sessions with Emily, a Princeton graduate and experienced admissions consultant

  • Assistance crafting a balanced college list with safeties, targets, and reaches that make sense for each student's profile and goals

  • High-level admissions strategy — what aspects of your story will have the best impact on your admissions chances? What should you choose to highlight or downplay when crafting your applicant profile? Should you apply EA, REA, or ED? What are your chances of admission?

  • Patient coaching through the entire essay process: brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and revising

  • Examples of real college essays that worked for the Ivy League

  • Help meeting deadlines with minimal stress and anxiety

We can work on:

  • Personal Statement (main Common App essay)

  • Supplemental essays for each college

  • UC system Personal Insight Questions

  • Activities List, Awards List, and Additional Information section

  • Requesting strong Letters of Recommendation from teachers and mentors

  • Preparing for interviews

  • Finding scholarships and preparing scholarship applications

All of the hard work that students put in throughout high school doesn't count if it isn't clearly presented in the application and essays. Make the most of your achievements and avoid common mistakes.

Read what past students and parents have had to say here.

Recent students have earned college admissions offers and scholarships from:

Princeton University • Stanford • The University of Pennsylvania • The University of Chicago • Brown University • Cornell University • Duke University • Oxford University • UC Berkeley • Johns Hopkins University • Dartmouth College • Georgetown University • USC • Vanderbilt University • UCLA • Cambridge University • Williams College • Pomona College • New York University • Oberlin College • CalTech • Barnard College • Amherst College • Vassar College • Emory University • The University of Durham . . . and other top-tier schools!

 

College essays are one of the most important parts of your college application.

More importantly, by the fall of your senior year, they’re pretty much the only part of your application that can be changed. 

Your GPA and high school transcript demonstrating course rigor are already set in stone. (Your senior year GPA and courses won’t matter very much for your college admissions.)

Likewise, you’ve run out of time to add to your list of extracurricular achievements.

You have maybe one more chance to raise your SAT and ACT scores.

BUT you can still write brilliant, memorable college essays that will catch the attention of admissions readers and earn you that acceptance offer — and even big scholarship money!

The problem is that college application essays require a kind of writing that almost no high school teaches. Students are left on their own to figure it out — with incredibly high stakes.

This is where an expert college essay coach can save the day.

I absolutely will not write your college admissions essays for you. This is unethical, not to mention illegal.

However, I’ll guide you through every stage of the essay process, from brainstorming to final revisions. We’ll help you stay on track for your deadlines and present your story in the best possible way for college admissions.

Both students and parents have told me that this relieves a lot of the stress and fear from the process.

About me:

I graduated summa cum laude from Princeton, where I won every award possible for her academic writing. I have over a decade of experience as a professional editor in the publishing industry, and I’ve been hand-picked by professors at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale to help them edit their books for publication. After I discovered that admissions consulting was the perfect combination of mentoring, writing, and strategizing, I left my career in publishing to focus on Ivy Bloom.

For the past decade, I’ve helped countless high school students through the college essay process, with impressive admissions results.