The Winning Essays Advantage

We help aspiring students get into their dream schools. With over 13 years in this field, we know what makes a winning essay. By providing college consulting and essay editing services, we make the college admissions process a smooth experience for families. Our process begins by teaching the seven factors that matter in the college admissions process and how to write winning essays and resumes.

Unlike other companies that take a customer-based business style, we have a student-centered, education approach. We do not just edit essays for students, we teach students how to write winning essays by example, giving them skills for life. This is evidenced by our testimonials from students and parents here.

After teaching students how to write winning essays, we follow up with an interview to get to know the student better before beginning work on essay editing.  Then, we proceed with essay editing draft by draft until we have a winning essay.

Every family has different needs and abilities. We offer various packages that satisfy every budget and can also customize packages to suit your needs.

Join us for a FREE webinar to learn more about how we can help your student/s get into their dream schools. Please register for our next webinar here.

WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE

We are a small, boutique company that takes on at most 25 students per year so that we can focus and help them do their best. Most college admissions consulting companies charge $350/hour and have packages that start at $5,000-7,000. Having an education vs. business mindset, we are affordable and charge $150/hour. Our packages end at prices where their packages begin. Aside from being a small company, what makes us unique is that we teach students how to write well by example. Our college consulting packages are listed below.

Packages for students applying to college or graduate school:

1. Basic – Winning Essay, Writing & Resume Tips ($500)
2. Resume – Basic plus Resume Edits ($1,500)*
3. Standard – Basic + Common App Essay Edits ($3,000)
4. Deluxe – Standard + Resume Edits ($4,000)
5. Superior – Standard + 3 Supplemental Essays ($4,350)
6. Elite – Superior + 5 Supplemental Essays ($5,250)
7. Ultimate – Elite + 7 Supplemental Essays ($6,150)**

* We highly recommend resume edits because resumes help students understand and present themselves better. Sharp resumes also help students stand out and win more money in merit scholarships.

**We can edit all supplemental essays and customize packages to meet each family’s needs and budget. After the Ultimate, we will edit more supplementals at our hourly rate of $150/hour.

To learn more about our process, please read our Mission, History, Process, Method, Policies and Goals below.

WEBINARS FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES

We also offer webinars for schools and communities where the audience is 50+. You can contact us to let us know what webinar/s you are interested in and we will customize these to meet your needs and ages of students.

Here are some webinars we have done for large groups:

1. College Admissions – Basic Info and Resources [Grades 9-12] (1 hour) $500
2. How to Write a Winning Resume – [Grades 10-12] (1 hour) $500
3. How to Write Winning Essays by Example – [Grades 11-12] (2 hours) $1,000
4. How to Write with Excellence – 25 Tips for Success [Grades 5-12] (1 hour) $500
5. How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay – [Grades 5-12] (1 hour) $500

Parent/s are required to attend webinars with student/s.

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Mission

WE teach you how to create winning essays to apply to the university of your dreams and help you figure out where you have the best chances of success!

History

  • WE help aspiring college/grad students create winning essays that have won them admission to the following undergraduate and graduate universities: American, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, GW, Harvard, James Madison, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Reed, Stanford, Syracuse, Tufts, U-California, U-Michigan, U-North Carolina, UPENN, UVA, U-Wisconsin, Virginia Tech and more!

  • If you are applying for competitive high schools – public, private and/or boarding schools that require essays for admission, we can help you, too. For example, we have helped students applying to magnet schools, such as, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Northern Virginia.

  • UNIVERSITY broadly refers to schools you are applying to for admission i.e. undergraduate colleges and graduate schools. 

  • ESSAYS refer to the common application essays and others required for university admission. These are also known as, personal statements or a statement of purpose (SOP).

Process:

YOU do the writing; WE do the editing!  We work together through as many drafts as you want or need until we have created a winning essay. Your satisfaction and success is our topmost priority.

Method:

First, we meet via Google Meet and have a webinar on the college admissions and essay writing process.  Then, we teach 10 Winning Tips to use and 10 Tips to avoid when writing your essays.  We have clients learn by example by reading past essays and evaluate them.  This gives students and parents a better sense of how this process works in admissions committees.  After this meeting, we send students a questionnaire and set up an in person meeting at a local library or via Google Meet to discuss their history, background and goals for the future.  We learn what interests them and what universities they are considering applying to.  This meeting lasts about an hour and is essential for gathering information, sharing more writing tips and discussing how we will work together to meet your goals.  From that point on, we usually communicate via email exchanging drafts until we have a winning essay. We also communicate via text and phone to stay in touch. Resume editing is also something we do to help students stand out more and we have found that this has had a significant impact not only on acceptances, but students winning merit-based college scholarships.

Policies:

We do our best to help you apply to your best fit colleges based on your GPA and SAT score. By creating a list of safety, target and reach schools, we help you get organized and create deadlines before the actual deadlines. We have found that students who work on their resumes, understand themselves better, and how to present themselves well for colleges and job interviews. The college essay is not about listing what’s on your resume but sharing what makes you unique. It is also not an essay to prove your intelligence but share who you are with the Admissions Committees of the colleges you are applying to. We are here to teach you writing skills for life by example and will help you write a winning essay that showcases what is unique about you. While we do our best and have excellent results, we cannot guarantee that you will get into the college of your choice. That is why it is important to ensure we begin with a list of schools that match your GPA and SAT score. We recommend you read our seven core business values before we begin to ensure that we proceed with mutual understanding and respect. You can read these on our Values page here.

Goal:

Our goal is to help you create a lasting and winning impression that will get you into the universities you are applying to.  We recommend starting the process of writing admissions essays in late summer or early fall of senior year, but not before.  It is best to complete all writing and editing in advance of the Early Decision and Early Action admissions deadlines so that there is time to re-read, reflect and improve upon anything if needed ahead of the deadline.  Given the Common Essay prompt questions are accessible online and many universities use the common app, students can start writing these essays before the winter when most of them are due.  If you are applying early, admissions deadlines are around the beginning of October and November, so you must start thinking ahead. If you are applying regular decision, most deadlines are at the end of December.  Some schools have rolling admissions but it is still wise to apply early. To learn about our College Essay Services and pricing, please visit our Services here.