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Start with story mining
Story mining is how we find the story only you can tell: a deep written questionnaire uncovers experiences, values, contradictions, and turning points in the student’s own words.
Flexible coaching. No scheduling needed.
Your story. Still in your voice.
Async college essay coaching for students who want guidance, not a ghostwriter. You write every word. We help you find the ones that matter: in writing, on your time.
01 / The process
Deep coaching, without another calendar invite.
The work happens asynchronously: thoughtful written questions, voice-note follow-ups, precise comments in Google Docs, and short recorded walkthroughs you can replay whenever you need them.
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Go deeper by voice note
Follow-up questions arrive as voice notes, so we can keep digging without coordinating a call. Students answer when they have room to think.
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Build the spine, then draft
We shape a clear outline asynchronously. The student writes the rough thing; honest material comes before elegant sentences.
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Revise in Google Docs
Suggestion-mode edits and margin comments show what’s vivid, what’s generic, what’s confusing, and what deserves more room.
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Watch the walkthrough
A Loom walkthrough is a concise recorded video that talks through the draft and next steps. It arrives as a private link, with no app or account needed, and you can rewatch it anytime.
Good coaching gives students time to think, write, and revise in their own voice. Photo source
02 / Packages
Choose the support you need. Keep your schedule.
Every package is async-first, with a clear scope, fixed price, and a firm line between coaching and writing the essay for the student.
Single essay
The Real Draft
$295
For the student with a draft that’s stuck.
- Google Docs feedback on one essay
- Up to 10-minute Loom walkthrough
- One follow-up review
- 5-business-day turnaround
Personal statementMost popular
The Full Draft
$950
For students who want the full personal statement process.
- Deep story-mining questionnaire
- Voice-note follow-ups + async outline
- Three Google Docs feedback rounds
- Up to 10-minute Loom walkthroughs
- Final polish over 6–8 weeks
6+ schools
The Whole Application
$1,650
For students balancing a personal statement and supplementals.
- Everything in The Full Draft
- Async strategy for up to 8 supplementals
- Google Docs feedback + up to 10-minute Loom walkthroughs
- Activity list review
- Deadline game plan
Want face time?
A live coaching call is available as a paid add-on to any package. It is never required; the complete process is designed to work without video chat.
Booking
Reserve your spot.
Inquiry first, deposit when you’re ready to book. The 50% deposit reserves your place on the coaching calendar, and the remaining balance is due before final polish.
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Send an inquiryStart with the inquiry form so we can confirm the right package and timing.
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Pay the 50% depositChoose your package below to reserve your spot. The balance is due before final polish.
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Complete the story-mining questionnaireShare the experiences, values, and turning points behind the essay to kick off coaching.
Choose your deposit
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Please complete the inquiry before paying your deposit. The questionnaire follows booking.
03 / Year-round support
Essay work doesn’t start in August and disappear in January.
Different months bring different deadlines. The same honest, student-led process works across the full admissions calendar.
Application season
Personal statements, supplemental essays, activity lists, and deadline plans for students applying now.
Scholarships & transfers
Focused coaching for scholarship essays and transfer applications with real spring deadlines.
Summer Head Start
Rising seniors can mine their stories, choose a direction, and draft before senior year gets crowded.
The seasonal model
Six intense months of high-touch coaching are balanced by six months of summer preparation, scholarship and transfer work, free workshops for junior families, and useful SEO guides that build the fall pipeline.
Seasonal offer
Scholarship Sprint: February–March only
Scholarship essays aren't personal statements. A personal statement asks “who are you?” A scholarship essay asks “why should we fund you?” The answer is need, merit, and what you'll do with it. Most students write the first one, sprinkle in the word “grateful,” and wonder where the money went.
The Sprint covers 3–5 scholarship essays through the same async process: deep written questionnaire, voice-note follow-ups, feedback in Google Docs, and a short recorded walkthrough of every draft. You write every word. No calls to schedule.
$595 flat. Two-week turnaround per essay batch.
If the $950 Full Draft feels like a stretch, this is the way in: same coaching, smaller commitment.
Prefer to start on your own?
Essay Topic Finder
Purpose-finding prompts and a practical scorecard for choosing a story with something real to say.
Draft It Yourself
A start-to-finish video course for students who want the process without one-to-one coaching.
04 / The approach
A coach in your corner. Your hands on the keyboard.
No ghostwriting. Full stop.
The strongest essay is not the one an adult could have written. It is the clearest, most specific version of the student’s own thinking.
Feedback you can revisit.
Specific Google Docs notes and recorded walkthroughs explain where attention drops, where language gets generic, and what a reader still needs to understand.
Purpose before performance.
The goal is not to sound impressive. It is to make choices, values, and growth legible to a reader who has never met you.
The honest promise
We can strengthen the essay. We cannot promise admission.
Admissions decisions belong to colleges and depend on far more than one essay. Any coach who guarantees an acceptance is selling something they do not control.
What we controlA clearer, more specific, more authentic essay, and a student who understands the choices behind it.
What we don’tAdmission, scholarships, waitlists, institutional priorities, or decisions by any college.
AuthorshipAll final writing remains the student’s own work. Coaching provides questions, structure, and feedback.
Booking50% deposit to reserve; remaining balance due before final polish.
A real draft, written by a real student.
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