“What do you do?” It’s a question that comes up time and time again. Whether at a cocktail party or a business meeting, we like to talk about it. The reason? We are pretty proud of what we do.
There are a lot of college admissions counselors out there. If you are looking for essay writing services, you have a lot to choose from and we think you should choose the best. We are the best. It might sound a little conceited. Maybe we need to back up a few steps and explain. For many, the first question is, what is an admissions essay writing service?
When you hire an essay writing service you are hiring someone to help your student produce the best college admissions essay that they can. Each service has different steps and structures, so let’s start with how we approach it. Once you hire us, our first step is getting one of our counselors to know your student. We like to see what makes them tick. We talk about what classes they like, what they do outside of class, what they want out of their college experience, what they want to study etc, but most importantly we are looking for what type of person they are. We want to know if they are funny. If they are deep. If they are a dreamer.
The best college essays aren’t just stories of leadership or high school interests, they get at the personality of the applicant. We have several ways of brainstorming with our students to see what story or stories best represent the type of person they are. Brainstorming is so important to us and it sets us apart from other services in many ways.
Next comes drafting and editing (honestly we should underline EDITING) with our students. We don’t write essays for students because that is unethical and also weird. The students have to do that part, but hold their hands and guide them every step of the way. We want each student’s voice and personality to come through in every essay they write throughout this process. We don’t write the essay for them, not only because that would be dishonest, but because we want your student’s uniqueness to be at the heart of the admissions process. Our job is simply to push our student’s writing to be the best it can be.
Many services are basically editing services. They want a fully written essay and then they just mark up the split infinitives and spliced commas. These are bad services if you’re optimizing for an admission essay that will set you apart. If your service is really more like a copy editor than a partner in writing, they aren’t supporting the student enough throughout the writing process.
Honestly, the essays are only part of our service. Yes, we are an essay writing service, but the best services do more. We help our students build their college lists, we can help set up travel, connect them with the best testing tutors, and build their resumes. We love to meet students' needs whatever they might be. For some this might just be writing one college essay, for others, it will be building a list of ten schools and working on each supplement together. We work with some of our students for years and other’s just for months as crunch time approaches. Making sure that we create an individualized plan of action tailored for each student’s needs is just what we do.
Every year we get students who first used another service. They usually come with us with an essay that either doesn’t sound like them or just doesn’t sparkle. When using a service that just focuses on copy-editing, students have to do the hard part by themselves. Yes, we will triple-check your students' work for if they used a semi-colon correctly, but that is the last part of a much longer process. We know our process works and helping students write the best essays they can is at the heart of what we do.
If you want help writing an amazing essay, reach out here.