Offered by Bryan C.

Joined May 2026

End-to-end App consulting | Crimson Education Veteran | Wharton/ UPenn +MIT

I provide soup-to-nuts application consulting. I have spent over a decade coaching students through undergraduate admissions — five years at Crimson Education focused on admissions strategy and extracurricular development, before that at Princeton Review, and more recently through my own practice, Edgewise Prep. My recent placements include Harvard College, Cornell, NYU, Columbia, and Yale, among others. 30+ top 10 admissions. My approach is built around a simple idea: original personalities produce original applications. I am not an essay factory, and I do not ghostwrite. Students write their own words — I coach the strategy, structure, and voice behind them. What I focus on is finding the thread that makes a candidacy coherent and memorable: the theme that runs through your activities, your essays, your recommenders, and your school list, so that admissions sees one consistent, compelling person rather than a list of credentials. Where I am particularly strong is extracurricular development — what I call the long game. Most consultants show up in senior year to polish essays. I work with students earlier, helping them identify what they genuinely care about, build real activities around those interests, and develop the kind of depth and recognition that admissions committees actually respond to. The goal is a T-shaped profile: one or two areas of clear excellence, surrounded by a complementary range of activities that show who you are as a full person. We build, not buy no pay-for-play research programs, no voluntourism, no manufactured credentials. I also believe in honest feedback. When an essay is weak, I say so. When an activity is fluff, we cut it. My job is to help you put forward the strongest, most authentic version of yourself — not to tell you what you want to hear. I studied at the University of Pennsylvania (M&T Program) and earned my MBA at MIT Sloan, so I have walked through the doors you are trying to walk through. I know what strong applications look like from the inside, and I know what makes them stand out.