College Essays:

See What Else Is True

What Students Will Do—and Leave With

College essay coaching rooted in voice, reflection, and the belief that there is always more in a story.

College essay coaching is not simply about producing a polished essay. The work is a process of noticing, questioning, connecting, drafting, and revising—so that a student can shape an application that sounds like them and reveals something meaningful about how they think, what they value, and how they move through the world.

  • Notice

    Generate possible stories and details from lived experience—not from what a student thinks a college wants to hear.

  • Connect

    Recognize patterns across moments, interests, relationships, questions, and experiences.

  • Reflect

    Move beyond what happened to what the experience elicits: what the student notices, understands, values, or sees differently.

  • Shape

    Turn those discoveries into writing with structure, specificity, clarity, and a voice that remains unmistakably the student's.

How We Work Together

The Personal Statement

  • Students will generate a bank of possible stories, images, memories, questions, and moments worth exploring.

  • Students will use focused free-writing and conversation to discover what an essay may actually be about.

  • Students will develop a complete Common App personal statement through purposeful revision—not simply line editing.

  • Students will shape a final essay that reveals something beyond the transcript and Activities List while preserving their own language and voice.

Supplemental Essays

  • Students will collect and organize supplemental prompts, word counts, and deadlines.

  • Students will decide which parts of their story belong in which essays so the application does not simply repeat itself.

  • Students will draft and revise school-specific essays with attention to the real question underneath each prompt.

  • Students will create supplements that add dimension to the application while remaining consistent with their own voice.

Activities + Application Writing

  • Students will identify what they actually did—the responsibilities, leadership, initiative, impact, and contribution behind each activity.

  • Students will create concise, active descriptions that fit the Common App’s limits without flattening their work into résumé language.

  • Students will determine whether Additional Information would genuinely help an admissions reader understand their record or experience.

  • Students will consider the application as a whole so essays, activities, and additional context add to one another rather than repeat the same story.

A Process The Student Can Manage

  • Students will break a large, emotionally loaded project into manageable next steps.

  • Students will identify concrete next actions: what to do next, when to do it, how to begin, and what “done” looks like.

  • Students will practice a revision process they can carry forward into future writing—not simply finish an application.

The goal is to help a student see what else is true—and learn how to put that truth on the page.

  • he college essay isn't really about the Minecraft server, the balloon installation, the teacher's cart, or the book you've read every year. Those are the places we begin. The story emerges when we ask why this particular thing stayed with you—and what it reveals about how you see yourself and the world.

  • You don't need to have experienced something extraordinary to write something meaningful. Often, the smallest stories reveal the most: what you notice, what you remember, what you question, and what you choose to carry with you.

  • An object. A conversation. A mistake. A meal. A moment you can't quite stop thinking about. Start there, pay attention, and see where the story takes you.

  • Sometimes my job is simply to listen, ask another question, and help them notice the thread that was there all along.

College Acceptances

  • American University

  • Amherst College

  • Auburn University

  • Boston College

  • Boston University

  • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Case Western Reserve University

  • Colgate University

  • College of Charleston

  • College of the Holy Cross

  • Colorado College

  • Columbia University

  • Cornell College

  • Cornell University

  • Dartmouth College

  • Elon University

  • Emerson College

  • Fordham University

  • George Washington University

  • Georgetown University

  • Hamilton College

  • Ithaca College

  • Loyola University Chicago

  • Miami University

  • Michigan State University

  • Northeastern University

  • Northwestern University

  • Pace University

  • Pennsylvania State University

  • Purdue University

  • Reed College

  • Syracuse University

  • Temple University

  • University of California, Berkeley

  • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • University of Chicago

  • University of Colorado Boulder

  • University of Delaware

  • University of Kentucky

  • University of Maryland

  • University of Michigan

  • University of New Hampshire

  • University of Pittsburgh

  • University of Rhode Island

  • University of Richmond

  • University of South Carolina

  • University of St Andrews

  • University of Tampa

  • University of Texas at Austin

  • University of Utah

  • University of Vermont

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

  • Virginia Tech

  • Wake Forest University

  • Wesleyan University

  • West Virginia University

  • Williams College

Ready to Find Your Story?

Great essays don't start with answers—they start with curiosity.

Whether you have five messy topic ideas or aren't sure where to begin, let’s sit down, talk it through, and see what else is true.

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