College App Essay Writing
College Application Essay Tutoring
The essay portion of any college application can make or break a student's chances of being accepted to their dream school! Our instructors have helped dozens of students write beautiful essays that capture their authentic stories. By using powerful storytelling techniques, students write essays that showcase their accomplishments and growth. Students also complete the program with strong writing skills and strategies that prepare them for rigorous writing assignments in college.
Over the past 5 years, our writing students have been accepted to the following schools:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (including Engineering, LAS, AHS, and other colleges)
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Chicago
Stanford
Pomona College
University of Michigan (Ross School of Business)
Cornell
Northwestern
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Texas at Austin (McCombs School of Business)
Our students have also received substantial scholarships, making even the biggest writing tutoring package a small investment with huge tuition savings!
Over the past 5 years, our writing students have been accepted to the following schools:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (including Engineering, LAS, AHS, and other colleges)
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Chicago
Stanford
Pomona College
University of Michigan (Ross School of Business)
Cornell
Northwestern
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Texas at Austin (McCombs School of Business)
Our students have also received substantial scholarships, making even the biggest writing tutoring package a small investment with huge tuition savings!
College Application Essay Writing
Summer office hours: Mondays-Fridays 10am-2pm
Applying to college can be a very stressful process for high school seniors. All of their hard work has come down to a list of numbers, classes, and accomplishments. How students can really make their application stand out among thousands of applications is for students to tell their own, unique story in a compelling way.
Our students to learn the essentials of storytelling, content development, effective strategies of communicating ideas and emotions through formal writing, and more. Most writing takes place between sessions, and our instructors work with students through idea generation, revisions, and proofreading during tutoring sessions.
College app essay writing students work with our instructors to learn how to tell their own story on their college application essays. This tutoring is open to any student applying to college. There are options of 6,12,18, and 24 hour packages as well as hourly. These hours are typically scheduled once or twice a week, either in-person or by Zoom. Students can register for writing tutoring at any time.
After completing a package of tutoring hours, students can add additional tutoring hours as needed for $120/hour or they can purchase additional packages.
Students can choose and register for any package they want. Our recommendations are below!
Honors (12 hours) - Great starter package for students who consider themselves strong writers and who are applying to only schools who use the Common App. Perfect for students applying to fewer than 5 schools.
Scholar (18 hours) - Strongly recommended! Ideal for students who are applying to schools that use the Common App or their own app. Great for students who struggle with writing. Ideal for students applying to 5-9 schools with an essay requirement.
Elite (24 hours) - For the determined student who is applying to the most competitive schools and/or more than 10 schools, this package allows students to get plenty of guidance for Common App essays, non-Common App essays, secondary essays, and more. This is also a great package for students who haven't decided which schools they want to apply to.
Summer office hours: Mondays-Fridays 10am-2pm
Applying to college can be a very stressful process for high school seniors. All of their hard work has come down to a list of numbers, classes, and accomplishments. How students can really make their application stand out among thousands of applications is for students to tell their own, unique story in a compelling way.
Our students to learn the essentials of storytelling, content development, effective strategies of communicating ideas and emotions through formal writing, and more. Most writing takes place between sessions, and our instructors work with students through idea generation, revisions, and proofreading during tutoring sessions.
College app essay writing students work with our instructors to learn how to tell their own story on their college application essays. This tutoring is open to any student applying to college. There are options of 6,12,18, and 24 hour packages as well as hourly. These hours are typically scheduled once or twice a week, either in-person or by Zoom. Students can register for writing tutoring at any time.
After completing a package of tutoring hours, students can add additional tutoring hours as needed for $120/hour or they can purchase additional packages.
Students can choose and register for any package they want. Our recommendations are below!
Honors (12 hours) - Great starter package for students who consider themselves strong writers and who are applying to only schools who use the Common App. Perfect for students applying to fewer than 5 schools.
Scholar (18 hours) - Strongly recommended! Ideal for students who are applying to schools that use the Common App or their own app. Great for students who struggle with writing. Ideal for students applying to 5-9 schools with an essay requirement.
Elite (24 hours) - For the determined student who is applying to the most competitive schools and/or more than 10 schools, this package allows students to get plenty of guidance for Common App essays, non-Common App essays, secondary essays, and more. This is also a great package for students who haven't decided which schools they want to apply to.
College App Essay Writing Tuition and Scheduling
When students register for writing tutoring, they select a package of hours (6,12, 18, or 24 hours) or hourly tutoring. After completing a package of hours, students can register for an additional package or they can add individual hours at $120/hr.
Sample writing tutoring timeline for summer:
Kara was a high school senior in Champaign-Urbana. She narrowed her college application list down to 10 business schools, including some of the top schools in the country. She had a 3.7/4.0 GPA and her best SAT score was in the upper 1400s. She is really busy with sports in the fall, and she wanted to be mostly done with her application essays before Labor Day, when her school and activity schedule gets hectic. With her parents, Kara chose an 18-hour writing tutoring package. Kara needed to write her Common App essay, and she had 8 secondary essays to write, too. We worked together to create this schedule:
Week of July 11: 2 hours in-person
Week of July 18: 2 hours in-person
Week of July 25: 3 hours in-person
Week of Aug 1: 1 hour by Zoom (Kara was on vacation)
Week of Aug 8: 3 hours in-person
Week of Aug 15: 3 hours in-person
Week of Aug 22: 2 hours in-person
Week of Aug 29: 2 hours by Zoom (Kara was overwhelmed with her schedule, so she wanted to meet by Zoom)
Kara finished her 18-hour package and was really happy with her essays. But then she went to a prospective student webinar in September for another business school, and she fell in love. Her parents gave her the green-light to schedule 4 additional hours to write the additional essays that the new school required.
When students register for writing tutoring, they select a package of hours (6,12, 18, or 24 hours) or hourly tutoring. After completing a package of hours, students can register for an additional package or they can add individual hours at $120/hr.
Sample writing tutoring timeline for summer:
Kara was a high school senior in Champaign-Urbana. She narrowed her college application list down to 10 business schools, including some of the top schools in the country. She had a 3.7/4.0 GPA and her best SAT score was in the upper 1400s. She is really busy with sports in the fall, and she wanted to be mostly done with her application essays before Labor Day, when her school and activity schedule gets hectic. With her parents, Kara chose an 18-hour writing tutoring package. Kara needed to write her Common App essay, and she had 8 secondary essays to write, too. We worked together to create this schedule:
Week of July 11: 2 hours in-person
Week of July 18: 2 hours in-person
Week of July 25: 3 hours in-person
Week of Aug 1: 1 hour by Zoom (Kara was on vacation)
Week of Aug 8: 3 hours in-person
Week of Aug 15: 3 hours in-person
Week of Aug 22: 2 hours in-person
Week of Aug 29: 2 hours by Zoom (Kara was overwhelmed with her schedule, so she wanted to meet by Zoom)
Kara finished her 18-hour package and was really happy with her essays. But then she went to a prospective student webinar in September for another business school, and she fell in love. Her parents gave her the green-light to schedule 4 additional hours to write the additional essays that the new school required.