Nicholas B.

Applying in the final days before the Nov 1st EA/ED deadline? I offer comprehensive college application reviews for a flat fee of $750, with feedback delivered within 48 hours. I'll review your entire application—including your personal statement, supplemental essays, activities list, and honors section—to identify weaknesses, strengthen your overall narrative, and help you submit your strongest possible application. My feedback includes substantial in-text comments, an editorial letter outlining my thoughts and next steps, and a 15-minute video providing oral commentary on my feedback. I guarantee my comments will substantially improve your students' essays or your money back. ______________ I'm a college essay coach with College Essay Guy — one of the most widely used admissions resources in the U.S. — and a UChicago MA. I help students turn scattered ideas into personal statements and supplements that actually sound like them. Most students arrive with a topic that's too broad, too resume-like, or too familiar. My job is to find the story underneath: the values, tensions, and turning points that make an essay memorable rather than merely competent. Then I help build it into a structure that holds. Students I've worked with have been admitted to Stanford, Princeton, Brown, and other highly selective universities. WHAT I WORK ON Common App personal statements Supplemental essays, including school-specific "Why us" writing UC Personal Insight Questions Activity lists and honors sections Transfer essays Graduate and medical school statements of purpose Parent-student strategy consultations HOW I WORK We start with a conversation, not a document. I ask questions until we find material worth writing about, then we draft, cut, and sharpen — preserving your voice rather than replacing it with mine. I don't write essays for students. I coach them into essays they could defend in an interview. My graduate training is in how arguments and narratives get built, which is most of what a personal statement actually is. I've worked with U.S. and international students across high school, undergraduate, graduate, and professional school applications. I'm especially useful for two kinds of students: those who are intellectually curious or interdisciplinary and can't figure out how to make that legible on an application, and those whose drafts are technically fine but flat. Send me a draft or the three topics you're considering, and I'll tell you honestly which one has an essay in it.