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Andrea Schiralli coaches students through every essay, the résumé and the interviews, and keeps parents in the loop the whole way. Harvard M.Ed. Cornell B.A. More than 20,000 essays since 2014.
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Everything Andrea teaches in her workshops, written down and shared freely. Guides, slides, prompt breakdowns, checklists. No email address required, and more added every season.
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How Andrea works
Admissions officers read thousands of essays written to impress them. They remember the ones written by a person.
So Andrea starts with the student, not the prompt. A conversation about what they care about turns into a shortlist of topics that are theirs. Then an outline, a first draft written by the student, margin comments that say exactly what to change and why, and a final edit for language and polish. Repeat for every school on the list.
She taught high-school English in New York City before this, and it shows. Feedback is specific, deadlines are real, and she will tell a student when a draft is not there yet. Students write their own essays. Andrea makes sure they are good.
- BrainstormOne conversation. Out of it, three or four topics that could only be this student's.
- Outline and draftA structure first, then a real first draft. The student writes it. Andrea is on call while they do.
- CommentMargin notes on content, structure and reflection. What works, what is missing, what to cut, and why.
- Edit and finalizeLine edits for language and grammar, a last read for word count, and it is ready to submit.
72 hours. Comments and edits come back within three days, usually sooner.
Parents in the loop. You will know what is due, what is done, and whether a draft is good yet.
No AI. Andrea does not use it on student work, and she can usually tell when a student has. So can admissions officers.
One story. The résumé, the activities list and every essay are edited together so the application reads as one person.
Packages
Pick a package by the length of the school list, or go school by school.
The Golden Ticket
Everything written in the application, coached one-on-one. Up to fifteen schools.
Quick Silver
The essays and one mock interview. Up to eight schools.
À la carte
One school at a time. One 45-minute call, two rounds of comments, one round of edits per essay.
Also on offer: essay commenting and editing, graduate school statements, résumé development, interview preparation, workshops and teaching.
Where students have gone
Acceptances every year since 2015. The full list runs to about 900 schools.
Harvard University
Yale University
Princeton University
Stanford University
Columbia University
MIT
University of Pennsylvania
Cornell University
Brown University
University of Chicago
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
UC Berkeley
UCLA
University of Oxford
McGill University
- Harvard University
- Yale University
- Princeton University
- Stanford University
- Columbia University
- MIT
- University of Pennsylvania
- Cornell University
- Brown University
- University of Chicago
- Duke University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Northwestern University
- UC Berkeley
- UCLA
- University of Oxford
- McGill University
For independent educational consultants
Hand off the writing. Andrea is the college essay editing partner behind the scenes for consulting agencies and IECs in the U.S. and Asia, from a one-time language edit to full essay coaching. You keep the client. Your students get someone who has done this twenty thousand times.
Start with a conversation.
Tell Andrea where your child is applying and where you are in the process. You will hear back within one business day, and it will not be a sales pitch.