Essay Review Options

Essays are where admissions officers hear you directly. Comments come from editors who are Harvard students or Coca-Cola Scholars. We do not replace your draft with our writing.

Asynchronous Review

Send your Google Doc. We add margin notes, sentence-level suggestions, and flags where the draft loses focus or buries the main point.

Priced by word count. Rates on the Services page.

Revise on your schedule and send another draft if needed. Each round is billed by word count.

Live Meetings

Work through essays during Workshop Calls when you need to compare drafts, fix structure, or decide if a topic is too risky.

Included in Workshop Calls. Rates on the Services page.

Many students use async review first, then a live hour to discuss comments and plan revisions.

Essay Types We Work On

Personal Statement

The Common App main essay: 650 words. We help you pick a topic with enough specific detail and cut what does not belong on the page.

Used across most of your applications

School-Specific Supplements

"Why this college," "Why this major," community prompts, and short answers. Each school has different lengths; we help you avoid swapping only the school name in the same paragraph.

Length varies by school

Scholarship Essays

Merit awards, local scholarships, and programs like the Coca-Cola Scholarship. Prompts often focus on leadership and community impact, with a different tone from the personal statement.

Varies by prompt length

We Do Not Ghostwrite

Comments come from Harvard students or Coca-Cola Scholars who have written personal statements, supplements, and scholarship essays themselves. If a sentence sounds like an adult wrote it, we say so.

We note whether the main story is on the page, whether the prompt is answered, and where to add or cut detail. Short praise without specifics is not useful feedback.

What feedback includes

  • Structure: does the draft hold together?
  • Opening and closing paragraphs
  • Where to add detail and where to cut
  • Tone: confident without overstating
  • Prompt alignment
  • Trimming when you are over the word limit

Eligibility & Timing

Junior · 2nd Sem

Personal statement drafting begins

Brainstorming and first drafts. Async review works well: send a draft, revise, send again.

Senior · 1st Sem

Full essay season

Personal statement finalization plus supplements and scholarship essays. Highest volume for editing.

Available to second-semester juniors (personal statement) and first-semester seniors (personal statement, supplements, and scholarship essays).