Essay Writing Coach

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Anonymous wrote:Please share if your child worked with an Essay writing coach.

Yes. We saw a flyer at the library for editing services. It was a retired English teacher ... nice side gig! My child had done a draft in English class, so the coach just worked on the draft. She made modest edits and gave my child the confidence that it was a good essay, ready to send in. They had a really low fee. I think they charge more if you need help with supplemental essays, or help from the beginning of the process.

Please share the name and contact of the teacher,

Everyone has " a person " but never share information

We used Richard Montauk for essay coaching and application review. He’s by the hour.

Can you share his rate range? Thanks!

It’s a lot and he’ll send you a bill for a consult - beware.

Someone already shared his rate on this thread: $300 / hour. But it's not just per hour spent talking to you/ advising, it's also the "hours" he spends reading through the materials you send him, etc which in my opinion really increases the cost exponentially.

Those prices are robbery. The admissions officials see a highly polished essay and they know that it was bought and paid for. It detracts from the application. The essay should look like it was written by a 17 year old. Just have them use regular spell check and grammar check.

Editor who was a PP some posts up, here. The price quoted is not "robbery" -- 1) this is niche work, and there are not many people who do it well, 2) the going rate for a good writer/developmental editor in general is pretty high, and 3) you will only need to pay for 3-5 hours or so. Parents who are supporting children who are aiming for schools that cost 70k per year can afford to spend around 1k for a developmental editor to help with the essay. And, fwiw, with my help, your DC's essay would still look like a 17 year old wrote it. (For the record, I don't work with students applying to college, I work with med school grads applying to residency -- but the personal statement essay for that is very similar, and the process is the same.)

$300 an hour is fine, if the person is amazing and can work fairly quickly. The person mentioned, however, has written a book on college admissions. It has 14 reviews on Amazon. Don’t you think if he was amazing, many of his clients would read the book? Wouldn’t the book be well known? Fourteen reviews? 🤔

It's very niche. Its not like it's going to get on Oprah's list now.

Of course, but one would think at least his then-current clients would check it out. Fourteen reviews tells me no one is checking him out. That means not a lot of clients, which isn’t a good omen for someone with that hourly rate.

Reviews are bought and sold, perhaps you're getting too used to the bloat on other products, fourteen suggests the author isn't purchasing reviews. Either way who would hire anyone for one-on-one work based on book reviews?

Please point to non book reviews for him.

Hiring someone usually involves more than snooping online--call, discuss, ask for references? Still the way the world works.

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Anonymous wrote:Please share if your child worked with an Essay writing coach.

Yes. We saw a flyer at the library for editing services. It was a retired English teacher ... nice side gig! My child had done a draft in English class, so the coach just worked on the draft. She made modest edits and gave my child the confidence that it was a good essay, ready to send in. They had a really low fee. I think they charge more if you need help with supplemental essays, or help from the beginning of the process.

Please share the name and contact of the teacher,

Everyone has " a person " but never share information

We used Richard Montauk for essay coaching and application review. He’s by the hour.

Can you share his rate range? Thanks!

It’s a lot and he’ll send you a bill for a consult - beware.

Someone already shared his rate on this thread: $300 / hour. But it's not just per hour spent talking to you/ advising, it's also the "hours" he spends reading through the materials you send him, etc which in my opinion really increases the cost exponentially.

Those prices are robbery. The admissions officials see a highly polished essay and they know that it was bought and paid for. It detracts from the application. The essay should look like it was written by a 17 year old. Just have them use regular spell check and grammar check.

Editor who was a PP some posts up, here. The price quoted is not "robbery" -- 1) this is niche work, and there are not many people who do it well, 2) the going rate for a good writer/developmental editor in general is pretty high, and 3) you will only need to pay for 3-5 hours or so. Parents who are supporting children who are aiming for schools that cost 70k per year can afford to spend around 1k for a developmental editor to help with the essay. And, fwiw, with my help, your DC's essay would still look like a 17 year old wrote it. (For the record, I don't work with students applying to college, I work with med school grads applying to residency -- but the personal statement essay for that is very similar, and the process is the same.)

$300 an hour is fine, if the person is amazing and can work fairly quickly. The person mentioned, however, has written a book on college admissions. It has 14 reviews on Amazon. Don’t you think if he was amazing, many of his clients would read the book? Wouldn’t the book be well known? Fourteen reviews? 🤔

It's very niche. Its not like it's going to get on Oprah's list now.

Of course, but one would think at least his then-current clients would check it out. Fourteen reviews tells me no one is checking him out. That means not a lot of clients, which isn’t a good omen for someone with that hourly rate.

Reviews are bought and sold, perhaps you're getting too used to the bloat on other products, fourteen suggests the author isn't purchasing reviews. Either way who would hire anyone for one-on-one work based on book reviews?

Please point to non book reviews for him.

Hiring someone usually involves more than snooping online--call, discuss, ask for references? Still the way the world works.

No, it doesn’t. Tutors are usually word of mouth and if only by the internet, then you sleuth out corroborating evidence confirming qualifications. This guy is missing that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Search on Wyzant - there are quite a few very experienced in just this. Read the reviews. That's how we found ours and he has been amazing. He does not write a thing but does very detailed pulling out of the kid the best way to state something and idea generation. For common app essay, our kid used 3-4 hours (he came in w/ a draft) and what came out the other side was authentic and more crisp. Kid is also now using same person for ED suppl. essay

There are a variety of prices on wyzant - from $150/hr to $700++

Hi do you mind sharing the coach you used from Wyzant ?

Key is to read all of the reviews and find your good fit/match based on those.

Was far superior to our school essay reader, Very good investment of $

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Hi Do you mind sharing the name of the coach you found on Wyzant ? Thank you

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Anonymous wrote:Please share if your child worked with an Essay writing coach.

Yes. We saw a flyer at the library for editing services. It was a retired English teacher ... nice side gig! My child had done a draft in English class, so the coach just worked on the draft. She made modest edits and gave my child the confidence that it was a good essay, ready to send in. They had a really low fee. I think they charge more if you need help with supplemental essays, or help from the beginning of the process.

Please share the name and contact of the teacher,

Everyone has " a person " but never share information

We used Richard Montauk for essay coaching and application review. He’s by the hour.

Can you share his rate range? Thanks!

It’s a lot and he’ll send you a bill for a consult - beware.

Someone already shared his rate on this thread: $300 / hour. But it's not just per hour spent talking to you/ advising, it's also the "hours" he spends reading through the materials you send him, etc which in my opinion really increases the cost exponentially.

Those prices are robbery. The admissions officials see a highly polished essay and they know that it was bought and paid for. It detracts from the application. The essay should look like it was written by a 17 year old. Just have them use regular spell check and grammar check.

Editor who was a PP some posts up, here. The price quoted is not "robbery" -- 1) this is niche work, and there are not many people who do it well, 2) the going rate for a good writer/developmental editor in general is pretty high, and 3) you will only need to pay for 3-5 hours or so. Parents who are supporting children who are aiming for schools that cost 70k per year can afford to spend around 1k for a developmental editor to help with the essay. And, fwiw, with my help, your DC's essay would still look like a 17 year old wrote it. (For the record, I don't work with students applying to college, I work with med school grads applying to residency -- but the personal statement essay for that is very similar, and the process is the same.)

$300 an hour is fine, if the person is amazing and can work fairly quickly. The person mentioned, however, has written a book on college admissions. It has 14 reviews on Amazon. Don’t you think if he was amazing, many of his clients would read the book? Wouldn’t the book be well known? Fourteen reviews? 🤔

It's very niche. Its not like it's going to get on Oprah's list now.

Of course, but one would think at least his then-current clients would check it out. Fourteen reviews tells me no one is checking him out. That means not a lot of clients, which isn’t a good omen for someone with that hourly rate.

Reviews are bought and sold, perhaps you're getting too used to the bloat on other products, fourteen suggests the author isn't purchasing reviews. Either way who would hire anyone for one-on-one work based on book reviews?

Please point to non book reviews for him.

Are you guys still talking about Shane? Or someone else?

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Anonymous wrote:Hi Do you mind sharing the name of the coach you found on Wyzant ? Thank you

Same!!

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I’m looking on wyzant. There are so many options. How can you tell who’s truly legit??

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Yes ! hoping the person who mentioned wyzant would share the name of the essay coach they used!

[Anonymous]

Beware of Wyzant. They are more likely to use Chat GPT when they are “helping” the student.

They get a picture of who the kid is, plug it into the Chat GPF and ask it to create an outline, first draft and second draft etc. or if your kids writes the draft, they just copy it in and ask Chat GPT for feedback. Why would you pay for this “service”? Either write them the old fashioned way or just use chat GPT yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:We found someone who charges $395 a session for the common app essay but they (consultant and student) get it done during the sessions and it wound up being a total of $1100. Honestly worth it to not have to nag my kid to work on it.

Soooo. It took your child less than 3 hours to do the common app essay?

Dang.

Doubt your kid actually wrote it. Lol.

Make sure to run it through rhe AI dectection software.

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Anonymous wrote:Please share if your child worked with an Essay writing coach.

Yes. We saw a flyer at the library for editing services. It was a retired English teacher ... nice side gig! My child had done a draft in English class, so the coach just worked on the draft. She made modest edits and gave my child the confidence that it was a good essay, ready to send in. They had a really low fee. I think they charge more if you need help with supplemental essays, or help from the beginning of the process.

Please share the name and contact of the teacher,

Everyone has " a person " but never share information

We used Richard Montauk for essay coaching and application review. He’s by the hour.

Can you share his rate range? Thanks!

It’s a lot and he’ll send you a bill for a consult - beware.

Someone already shared his rate on this thread: $300 / hour. But it's not just per hour spent talking to you/ advising, it's also the "hours" he spends reading through the materials you send him, etc which in my opinion really increases the cost exponentially.

Those prices are robbery. The admissions officials see a highly polished essay and they know that it was bought and paid for. It detracts from the application. The essay should look like it was written by a 17 year old. Just have them use regular spell check and grammar check.

Editor who was a PP some posts up, here. The price quoted is not "robbery" -- 1) this is niche work, and there are not many people who do it well, 2) the going rate for a good writer/developmental editor in general is pretty high, and 3) you will only need to pay for 3-5 hours or so. Parents who are supporting children who are aiming for schools that cost 70k per year can afford to spend around 1k for a developmental editor to help with the essay. And, fwiw, with my help, your DC's essay would still look like a 17 year old wrote it. (For the record, I don't work with students applying to college, I work with med school grads applying to residency -- but the personal statement essay for that is very similar, and the process is the same.)

$300 an hour is fine, if the person is amazing and can work fairly quickly. The person mentioned, however, has written a book on college admissions. It has 14 reviews on Amazon. Don’t you think if he was amazing, many of his clients would read the book? Wouldn’t the book be well known? Fourteen reviews? 🤔

It's very niche. Its not like it's going to get on Oprah's list now.

Of course, but one would think at least his then-current clients would check it out. Fourteen reviews tells me no one is checking him out. That means not a lot of clients, which isn’t a good omen for someone with that hourly rate.

Reviews are bought and sold, perhaps you're getting too used to the bloat on other products, fourteen suggests the author isn't purchasing reviews. Either way who would hire anyone for one-on-one work based on book reviews?

Please point to non book reviews for him.

Are you guys still talking about Shane? Or someone else?

No: Richard Montauk

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Anonymous wrote:Please share if your child worked with an Essay writing coach.

Yes. We saw a flyer at the library for editing services. It was a retired English teacher ... nice side gig! My child had done a draft in English class, so the coach just worked on the draft. She made modest edits and gave my child the confidence that it was a good essay, ready to send in. They had a really low fee. I think they charge more if you need help with supplemental essays, or help from the beginning of the process.

Please share the name and contact of the teacher,

Everyone has " a person " but never share information

We used Richard Montauk for essay coaching and application review. He’s by the hour.

Can you share his rate range? Thanks!

It’s a lot and he’ll send you a bill for a consult - beware.

Someone already shared his rate on this thread: $300 / hour. But it's not just per hour spent talking to you/ advising, it's also the "hours" he spends reading through the materials you send him, etc which in my opinion really increases the cost exponentially.

Those prices are robbery. The admissions officials see a highly polished essay and they know that it was bought and paid for. It detracts from the application. The essay should look like it was written by a 17 year old. Just have them use regular spell check and grammar check.

Editor who was a PP some posts up, here. The price quoted is not "robbery" -- 1) this is niche work, and there are not many people who do it well, 2) the going rate for a good writer/developmental editor in general is pretty high, and 3) you will only need to pay for 3-5 hours or so. Parents who are supporting children who are aiming for schools that cost 70k per year can afford to spend around 1k for a developmental editor to help with the essay. And, fwiw, with my help, your DC's essay would still look like a 17 year old wrote it. (For the record, I don't work with students applying to college, I work with med school grads applying to residency -- but the personal statement essay for that is very similar, and the process is the same.)

$300 an hour is fine, if the person is amazing and can work fairly quickly. The person mentioned, however, has written a book on college admissions. It has 14 reviews on Amazon. Don’t you think if he was amazing, many of his clients would read the book? Wouldn’t the book be well known? Fourteen reviews? 🤔

It's very niche. Its not like it's going to get on Oprah's list now.

Of course, but one would think at least his then-current clients would check it out. Fourteen reviews tells me no one is checking him out. That means not a lot of clients, which isn’t a good omen for someone with that hourly rate.

Reviews are bought and sold, perhaps you're getting too used to the bloat on other products, fourteen suggests the author isn't purchasing reviews. Either way who would hire anyone for one-on-one work based on book reviews?

Please point to non book reviews for him.

Are you guys still talking about Shane? Or someone else?

No: Richard Montauk

He is excellent. We found his insights totally invaluable. https://www.richardmontauk.com

Also we tried a few wyzant tutors over the years and I would avoid all of them, like the plague.

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Anonymous wrote:Please share if your child worked with an Essay writing coach.

Yes. We saw a flyer at the library for editing services. It was a retired English teacher ... nice side gig! My child had done a draft in English class, so the coach just worked on the draft. She made modest edits and gave my child the confidence that it was a good essay, ready to send in. They had a really low fee. I think they charge more if you need help with supplemental essays, or help from the beginning of the process.

Please share the name and contact of the teacher,

Everyone has " a person " but never share information

We used Richard Montauk for essay coaching and application review. He’s by the hour.

Can you share his rate range? Thanks!

It’s a lot and he’ll send you a bill for a consult - beware.

Someone already shared his rate on this thread: $300 / hour. But it's not just per hour spent talking to you/ advising, it's also the "hours" he spends reading through the materials you send him, etc which in my opinion really increases the cost exponentially.

Those prices are robbery. The admissions officials see a highly polished essay and they know that it was bought and paid for. It detracts from the application. The essay should look like it was written by a 17 year old. Just have them use regular spell check and grammar check.

Editor who was a PP some posts up, here. The price quoted is not "robbery" -- 1) this is niche work, and there are not many people who do it well, 2) the going rate for a good writer/developmental editor in general is pretty high, and 3) you will only need to pay for 3-5 hours or so. Parents who are supporting children who are aiming for schools that cost 70k per year can afford to spend around 1k for a developmental editor to help with the essay. And, fwiw, with my help, your DC's essay would still look like a 17 year old wrote it. (For the record, I don't work with students applying to college, I work with med school grads applying to residency -- but the personal statement essay for that is very similar, and the process is the same.)

$300 an hour is fine, if the person is amazing and can work fairly quickly. The person mentioned, however, has written a book on college admissions. It has 14 reviews on Amazon. Don’t you think if he was amazing, many of his clients would read the book? Wouldn’t the book be well known? Fourteen reviews? 🤔

It's very niche. Its not like it's going to get on Oprah's list now.

Of course, but one would think at least his then-current clients would check it out. Fourteen reviews tells me no one is checking him out. That means not a lot of clients, which isn’t a good omen for someone with that hourly rate.

Reviews are bought and sold, perhaps you're getting too used to the bloat on other products, fourteen suggests the author isn't purchasing reviews. Either way who would hire anyone for one-on-one work based on book reviews?

Please point to non book reviews for him.

Are you guys still talking about Shane? Or someone else?

No: Richard Montauk

He is excellent. We found his insights totally invaluable. https://www.richardmontauk.com

Also we tried a few wyzant tutors over the years and I would avoid all of them, like the plague.

Tell me more about Wisin tutors… I found two that I liked on Wyzsnt:

one is at Berkeley named Ben
and
the other is former lecture at UCLA who also does college advising on the side for college essay guy or something. I found him on LinkedIn (Gabriel M).

Kid has decent drafts of 3-4 different essays.
One personal statement and several Why essays.
Lots of different drafts, showing insights into his personality and interest.
Just need help pulling it all together and giving some suggestions on how to tighten it up and where else he can make improvements?
Do you not recommend a Wizard highly reviewed tutor for that?

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Anonymous wrote:Please share if your child worked with an Essay writing coach.

Yes. We saw a flyer at the library for editing services. It was a retired English teacher ... nice side gig! My child had done a draft in English class, so the coach just worked on the draft. She made modest edits and gave my child the confidence that it was a good essay, ready to send in. They had a really low fee. I think they charge more if you need help with supplemental essays, or help from the beginning of the process.

Please share the name and contact of the teacher,

Everyone has " a person " but never share information

We used Richard Montauk for essay coaching and application review. He’s by the hour.

Can you share his rate range? Thanks!

It’s a lot and he’ll send you a bill for a consult - beware.

Someone already shared his rate on this thread: $300 / hour. But it's not just per hour spent talking to you/ advising, it's also the "hours" he spends reading through the materials you send him, etc which in my opinion really increases the cost exponentially.

Those prices are robbery. The admissions officials see a highly polished essay and they know that it was bought and paid for. It detracts from the application. The essay should look like it was written by a 17 year old. Just have them use regular spell check and grammar check.

Editor who was a PP some posts up, here. The price quoted is not "robbery" -- 1) this is niche work, and there are not many people who do it well, 2) the going rate for a good writer/developmental editor in general is pretty high, and 3) you will only need to pay for 3-5 hours or so. Parents who are supporting children who are aiming for schools that cost 70k per year can afford to spend around 1k for a developmental editor to help with the essay. And, fwiw, with my help, your DC's essay would still look like a 17 year old wrote it. (For the record, I don't work with students applying to college, I work with med school grads applying to residency -- but the personal statement essay for that is very similar, and the process is the same.)

$300 an hour is fine, if the person is amazing and can work fairly quickly. The person mentioned, however, has written a book on college admissions. It has 14 reviews on Amazon. Don’t you think if he was amazing, many of his clients would read the book? Wouldn’t the book be well known? Fourteen reviews? 🤔

It's very niche. Its not like it's going to get on Oprah's list now.

Of course, but one would think at least his then-current clients would check it out. Fourteen reviews tells me no one is checking him out. That means not a lot of clients, which isn’t a good omen for someone with that hourly rate.

Reviews are bought and sold, perhaps you're getting too used to the bloat on other products, fourteen suggests the author isn't purchasing reviews. Either way who would hire anyone for one-on-one work based on book reviews?

Please point to non book reviews for him.

Are you guys still talking about Shane? Or someone else?

No: Richard Montauk

He is excellent. We found his insights totally invaluable. https://www.richardmontauk.com

Also we tried a few wyzant tutors over the years and I would avoid all of them, like the plague.

Tell me more about Wisin tutors… I found two that I liked on Wyzsnt:

one is at Berkeley named Ben
and
the other is former lecture at UCLA who also does college advising on the side for college essay guy or something. I found him on LinkedIn (Gabriel M).

Kid has decent drafts of 3-4 different essays.
One personal statement and several Why essays.
Lots of different drafts, showing insights into his personality and interest.
Just need help pulling it all together and giving some suggestions on how to tighten it up and where else he can make improvements?
Do you not recommend a Wizard highly reviewed tutor for that?

Interview a few of them. I generally like the women more.

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If he’s written the drafts already, then use AI yourself. Then edit.
Voila.