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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't worked as an editor for college essays but I have worked as an editor with international medicine grads who need to write a personal statement to apply for residency. I looked at Shane's page and it sounds as though his process is very much like mine was. I had my clients fill out a questionnaire and give me a draft essay. Then I got on a Zoom with them and used the questions they had answered and their draft as a jumping off point to explore their story. From there we would decide what they wanted to focus on in the essay (this was often, although not always, a big deviation from the draft essay they had already done). Then a new draft would be written, and we'd go from there with edits, first making sure everything we needed to convey was there, and then second making sure the essay itself was well structured, grammar was correct, etc.

But I think like 75% of my job was connecting and building confidence. If the student is confident, and they feel they have good support, they tend to do quite well.

And of course for many clients the big thing that hiring an editor does is forces the student to work on the darn thing when they'd rather be doing anything else. [/quote]

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