Shape your consulting experience to fit your needs

Consulting Approaches

 

Common App

This approach will focus exclusively on your personal statement, giving us the opportunity to delve deep into the process of planning, writing and editing your superb admissions essay. This approach will include brainstorming and revising sessions, over Zoom or in person. 


5 Essays

With this approach, we will work on any five essays of your choice. This will include meetings over Zoom or in person for brainstorming and revisions.


3 Essays

With this approach, we will work on any three essays of your choice. This will include meetings over Zoom or in person for brainstorming and revisions.


Comprehensive

This approach will support you through it all. From narrowing down your choice of schools, to writing and revising your essays, and applying for financial aid. You can start as early as the summer before your first year of high school, to plan curricular as well as extra-curricular goals and choices, and you can receive support all the way through graduate school.

 

Additional Services

  • Graduate school applications

  • Professional school applications

  • Fellowship applications

  • Tenure applications

  • Scholarship applications

  • Dissertation editing

  • College writing consultations

  • College curriculum counseling

  • Manuscript Editing
    As a career professor of languages, literatures, and race, gender and sexuality studies, I have decades of experience with published work and editing student writing of varying subject matter and genre. From academic theses, to translations, to creative writing and memoir, I can help you polish your project to prepare it for publication.

Pricing

20-minute free initial consultation

1 Hour Session — $200.00/hr

10 Hour Package (good for 15 weeks) — $1,900.00

20 Hour Package (good for 30 weeks) — $3,200.00

In-person sessions available in El Cerrito, CA, and surrounding areas. Zoom sessions available anywhere in the world.

Pay it forward options available to qualified first-generation applicants