How We Can Help You
Want expert advice on brainstorming and writing your common app essays? Having trouble getting started? Need guidance in understanding or responding to a specific common app essay prompt? Click here.
Looking for a college coach to work one-on-one with you to help you successfully navigate the college admissions process? Need some expert guidance in planning and writing a personal statement that expresses something genuine and outstanding about yourself? Want advice on how to present yourself on the common app and in your college interviews? Or are you looking for an expert tutor to help you improve your standardized test scores? We can help.
The Ethical Applicant is dedicated to helping students succeed in the admissions process by approaching it in a healthier, more genuine way and by showing them how to express their best self. Working in person or online, we help students and their families at every stage of their path to college. For a free initial consultation to hear how The Ethical Applicant can help you, click here. In this initial, no-obligation meeting we will discuss your college goals and begin charting a customized path to make them a reality.
For details about our services, see below. We offer a flat-rate comprehensive package as well as hourly service. Click here to request information on our fees and discounts. (In keeping with its mission, The Ethical Applicant is committed to improving the social justice of the college admissions process, and we offer services at discounted rates for students from low-income families. A portion of our work is also done pro bono, at no cost for the student's family.)
Choose a Plan that Works for You
Comprehensive College Preparation Package (Flat Rate)
We offer personalized expert guidance throughout every step of your path to college, from your earliest thinking about what college is for and what colleges might be a good match for you to your eventual decision about what offer of admission to accept and how to negotiate the best scholarship offer. This comprehensive package includes:
• Early guidance in thinking about college and charting your best path to college
• Assessment of whether you would benefit from tutoring or help prepping for the SAT/ACT.
• Working with you to develop a list of colleges that are a great match for you
• Helping you organize college visits and correspondence with college admissions staff
• Guiding you through the process of brainstorming and outlining your personal statement
• Help editing, revising and improving your personal statement and supplemental essays
• Final proofreading of all material to be submitted to colleges
• Preparation for college interviews, including mock interviews
• Advice in navigating admissions offers, scholarships, and financial aid offers.
College Consulting & Essay Help (Hourly)
This option includes all the services listed above as part of the Comprehensive College Preparation Package. Here it is offered on an hourly basis rather than at a flat-rate. It is recommended for students in the final months or weeks of the college application process. (Students earlier in the process can save up to 60% by choosing the flat-rate Comprehensive Package.)
Summer College Essay Workshop (Flat Rate)
Get a great head start on writing your college essays with this stress-free summer workshop! Working in small groups and one-one-one, you'll receive expert guidance in:
• Learning about recent changes in college admissions, which especially affect the essay
• Thinking through the questions on the Common Application and what colleges want
• Brainstorming and outlining different essays and deciding which to write on
• Beginning to write and revise drafts of your personal statement and supplemental essays
• Suggestions for how to improve your writing and creativity
• Editing and proofreading work ready to be submitted to colleges
This option is for students who are already receiving excellent college guidance but want more personalized help with their college essays. We guide applicants to find their own genuine voice in expressing themselves, their goals, and their values in the material they send to colleges. We offer careful guidance at each stage of the essay writing process, including:
• Thinking through who you are, what you want from college, and how to express it
• Thinking through the questions colleges ask and what they value in applicants
• Brainstorming and outlining for the personal statement and supplemental essays
• Reviewing drafts and giving suggestions for improvement
• Final proofreading of all materials to be submitted to colleges
• Brainstorming, writing and editing essays for scholarships
Tutoring for SAT & ACT Prep (Hourly)
Our method teaches students to approach standardized tests with a calm, informed confidence, lowering stress and improving test performance. We work with students as they prepare for:
• SAT Reading
• SAT Writing & Language
• SAT Essay
• ACT English
• ACT Reading
• ACT Writing
Grad/Professional School Consulting & Test Prep (Hourly)
People thinking about graduate and professional schools often facing a daunting array of educational and career choices. We offer:
• Guidance in thinking through educational and career plans
• Help selecting programs to apply to and admissions advice as you apply
• Help brainstorming, writing, and editing your personal statement and cover letter
• Mock interviews
• Tutoring for the verbal and analytic sections of the GRE, LSAT, MCAT, and GMAT