As a full-time professional consultant committed to helping a small number of applicants develop the strongest possible material, I do whatever it takes to maximize your chances for admission. This package includes: • Assisting in brainstorming & development of essays throughout multiple drafts • Editing/final polish of essays • Strategizing, or enhancing strategy, of overall application approach • Discussing methods of augmenting candidacy • Interview preparation and mock interview ('unlimited' package only) • Guidance on recommender selection ('unlimited' package only) • Resume feedback, editing, final polish ('unlimited' package only) • Waitlist support, if needed ('unlimited' package only) This service does not impose any limit on iterations, such as the number of drafts, that we work on. Who is this package good for? This service is meant for high school seniors who are ready to dive into the most challenging phase of the college application process. I’ve worked extensively with all types of applicants from all over the world. I particularly enjoy working with a wide variety of applicants who have an acute need to stand out in highly competitive applicant pools. How do I like to work with applicants? I find that both calls and offline feedback are indispensable. For essay brainstorming and other challenging collaboration-intensive aspects of the process, nothing beats a live conversation. On the other hand, when suggesting a long list of edits on a new draft, taking the time to explain each issue and suggest specific fixes in writing is helpful for me, and my clients usually find that having ample time to review and think about this carefully prepared feedback is the most helpful and efficient for them. That said, we can ALWAYS schedule a call to discuss any questions, concerns, doubts, or even just to review our progress. Typically, my clients tend to schedule calls every 5-10 days, while trading revisions and feedback via email throughout the process. I handle everyday communications through email, and I find that our progress is fastest when clients send me complete revisions (and full sets of questions, if any) that reflect as much of my prior feedback as possible, rather than partial ‘just to see if I’m on the right track’ revisions. After we finalize the content for all the essays for each school, I like to do a final polish to make sure everything fits the required word limits and the style is consistent, and to address any remaining issues with writing mechanics. As always, the more careful thought and hard work you put into this process, the more I can help you make your ideas and final output even more compelling, often to the point where we’re both proud of what you’ve created and we can’t wait for you to submit it. What is the response time they should expect? Although I usually try to do better than this, and I often do, my max turnaround time for emails and essay feedback is 24 hours. For calls, I usually need to schedule them 24 hours in advance. For final polishing, I need up to 48 hours. Since I never want to be the bottleneck for an applicant’s progress, we’ll usually plan on a front-burner project and a back-burner project, so you’ll always have something to keep you busy while you wait for my feedback on the last document you sent me. I urge all my applicants to let me know IMMEDIATELY if they’re ever unable to move forward because they’re waiting for my feedback on something; we’ll schedule a call right away and get you started on something new if this is ever the case. We need to make sure we always keep your momentum going! To ensure that I’m able to fulfill my commitments to all of my clients, especially as the deadlines approach, my only other limit is that I’m unable to guarantee the capacity to review more than two essays for each applicant per day. So, if you have half a dozen essays to finish for multiple schools that are all due in a few days, and you’re sending me all these latest revisions at the same time, I’ll certainly try to help as much as I can, but I can’t promise I'll be able to send feedback on more than two essays per day. This is to avoid situations where applicants might fall far behind schedule, and then ask me to provide weeks’ worth of consulting in just a few days. Although I can (and often do) accommodate fairly tight timelines, I always urge my clients to plan ahead, start early, and keep the momentum going. How long is the package good for (duration)? The services included in this package will be available until the end of the second round of that year's college application cycle, unless otherwise discussed and agreed (e.g. for late deadlines), and with the exception of interview prep. Packages are non-transferrable and cannot be deferred or otherwise extended to a subsequent admissions cycle. Finally, this service represents a guaranteed reservation of scheduling capacity for a peak period of the admissions season. This means that I agree to turn away new business once I’ve reached full capacity, ensuring my ability to provide the agreed-upon services to the best of my ability. In return for this reserved capacity, applicants acknowledge that the payment is non-refundable in the event that they choose not to or are unable to submit any application by its due date.

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