The Complete Application Essay Package
This package takes you from a blank page to a finished set of essays that sound like you. We start with a brainstorming session to find the core story only you can tell, then build your Common App personal statement together through outline, drafting, and three focused rounds of revision. From there, I'll help you write supplemental essays for up to ten schools, including the "why us," "why major," and community or activity prompts that trip most applicants up. We finish with a holistic read of your entire set so your voice stays consistent across every essay. All work happens over live 1:1 sessions with written feedback between meetings.
What's included
- A finished, polished Common App personal statement developed through three rounds of revision
- Completed supplemental essays for up to ten schools, each tailored to the prompt and school
- A consistent application voice checked across every essay in a final holistic review
- A reusable framework for brainstorming and structuring any future essay or application
Meet your expert
Davud S.
Ivy League admissions coach for first-gen & non-traditional students
As a first-generation, low-income high-schooler, I spent my afternoons researching for hours on how the college application process worked with nobody to explain how any of it worked. I didn't have perfect test scores or the best educational environment. Though I did have a story worth telling and the stubbornness to learn how to tell it, and that's what carried me to Columbia as a likely-letter admit and a C.P. Davis Scholar, with offers from schools like Johns Hopkins, NYU Shanghai and Georgia Tech. Since then, I've earned my way into fiercely competitive research programs with no network to lean on, from a synthetic biology residency in Barcelona to a global summer research program that took 16 students out of roughly 1,100 applicants. I truly believe that almost every applicant is far more admissible than they think; they just haven't found the real story yet. So that's where we start. I don't hand you a template and send you off. (Templates, in general, are never that effective. Run away from them.) I go deep with you, one on one, until we uncover the moments and strengths that actually make you you, and then we build a narrative around them that an admissions officer will genuinely love to read. We'll work through your personal statement and supplements draft by draft, shape your activities list and résumé so they pull their weight, and think strategically about which schools fit the story we're telling. My students have gone on to Columbia, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford, and into selective programs like the Summer Science Program (SSP) and Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS). If you're first-generation, non-traditional, short on connections, or just aiming at something that feels out of reach — trust me when I say I know what it's like. But I also know the way through! You can do far more than you think. And I'd love to help you get there.
