Supplemental Essay Tips & Brainstorming Session
Unlock the potential of your college application with my Supplemental Essay Tips & Brainstorming Session. This personalized coaching plan is designed to help you craft compelling supplemental essays that resonate with admissions committees and highlight your unique story. Here's what we'll cover together: **Application Strategy & Exploration**: We'll start by discussing your overall application strategy, identifying key themes and experiences that align with your target schools. This exploration will help us pinpoint the most impactful stories to tell in your supplemental essays. **Essay Brainstorming**: Through guided brainstorming sessions, we'll uncover the narratives that best reflect your strengths, passions, and values. I'll help you find the angles that make your story stand out and ensure your essays are both authentic and strategic. **Drafting & Feedback**: As you begin drafting your essays, I'll provide detailed feedback to refine your ideas and enhance clarity, cohesion, and impact. We'll focus on creating essays that are not only well-written but also deeply personal and engaging. Throughout our collaboration, I am committed to being your partner in this journey, offering support and constructive feedback to help you present the best version of yourself. Let's work together to make your supplemental essays a powerful component of your college application.
What's included
I take a voice-driven approach to college admissions essays.
- Tailored application strategy to align your essays with target school values.
- Unique narrative angles that highlight your strengths and passions.
- Authentic and strategic supplemental essays that resonate with admissions.
- Detailed feedback to enhance essay clarity, cohesion, and impact.
Meet your expert
Chris N.
Harvard, Berkeley, & NYU Grad | Personal Statement Expert
Update (7/21/26): Just this last application season, I had several students accepted to Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Brown, with most admitted to two or more of these universities. Others include Duke, USC, Carnegie Mellon, Pomona, Occidental, the University of Rochester, Williams, Barnard of Columbia University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Irvine, UCSD, Georgetown, Wesleyan, Macalester, University of Richmond, Reed, Whitman, Virginia Tech, and NYU. Additionally, four received the Gates Scholarship, one earned Jack Kent Cooke, and another earned a Coca-Cola scholarship. I earned my Master of Theological Studies in Religion, Literature, and Culture from Harvard, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from NYU, and Bachelor of Arts in English from UC Berkeley. I also studied philosophy and law abroad at Oxford. I have a decade of experience teaching and coaching writing at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels, and most recently served as a Writing Instructor at the Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA), hosted at Princeton and Yale Universities. Last year, among the many admissions offers LEDA students received, 37/100 earned spots at Yale. Previously, I taught writing at NYU, and I currently teach Generative AI and Responsible AI at the University of Maryland Global Campus, qualified by my experience as a Content Engineer and Reviewer at Google. My unique background and trajectory prove that I know how to reflect on my experience to consider my next steps, and I will help you do the same.
