“My son’s essays are great, but even more than that, you helped him feel really good about the process. I admire your ‘frog boiling’ technique—whatever that analogy is where by the time the frogs realize the water is boiling it’s too late? The way you had them brainstorm and free write about themselves was like that because suddenly they were writing the essays and it was too late to worry about how to start!”

Parent, Town School for Boys

Worth Your Investment

Powerful essays require genuine soul searching, careful attention to detail, and stamina between each round of revision. We are proud to support middle and high school students throughout their application writing journey.

The byproduct of our work is high school and college admission. More impressive than placement results are the lasting cognitive benefits—students learn to perfect their writing while immersing themselves in meaningful self-reflection. Personal narrative writing skills are transferable, as are the fruits of disciplined introspection. Our students know themselves and graduate with the gift of self-awareness.

Humbled by the trust families have placed in us over the years, we look forward to helping students articulate their innermost stories.

Placement Results

Our students have earned admission into the following institutions:

High School (Bay Area)

  • Archbishop Riordan High School

  • The Athenian School

  • The Bay School of San Francisco

  • Bellarmine College Preparatory

  • Bishop O’Dowd High School

  • The Branson School

  • The College Preparatory School

  • Convent of the Sacred Heart High School

  • Crystal Springs Uplands School

  • Drew School

  • Head-Royce School

  • International High School of San Francisco

  • Jewish Community High School of the Bay

  • Lick-Wilmerding High School

  • Marin Academy

  • Marin Catholic High School

  • Menlo School

  • The Nueva School

  • Proof School

  • Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA)

  • Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory

  • Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton

  • San Domenico School

  • San Francisco University High School

  • St. Ignatius College Preparatory

  • Stuart Hall High School

  • The Urban School of San Francisco

  • Woodside Priory School

High School (Beyond)

  • Aiglon College

  • Aspen Country Day School

  • The American School in London

  • Berkshire School

  • Brentwood College School

  • Brooks School

  • Cate School

  • Choate Rosemary Hall

  • Dana Hall School

  • Deerfield Academy

  • Episcopal High School

  • Groton School

  • Hawaii Preparatory Academy

  • The Hill School

  • The Hotchkiss School

  • The Lawrenceville School

  • The Loomis Chaffee School

  • Middlesex School

  • Milton Academy

  • Phillips Academy Andover

  • Phillips Exeter Academy

  • Pomfret School

  • Ransom Everglades School

  • Salisbury School

  • Santa Catalina School

  • St. Andrew’s School

  • St. George’s School

  • St. Paul’s School

  • Stevenson School

  • Suffield Academy

  • The Taft School

  • The Thacher School

College

  • Amherst College

  • Barnard College

  • Boston College

  • Boston University

  • Bucknell University

  • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

  • Case Western Reserve University

  • Claremont McKenna College

  • Colby College

  • Columbia University

  • Dartmouth College

  • Denison University

  • Georgetown University

  • Hamilton College

  • Lehigh University

  • Lewis & Clark College

  • Loyola Marymount University

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • New York University

  • Northeastern University

  • Northwestern University

  • Occidental College

  • Pepperdine University

  • Pitzer College

  • Princeton University

  • Rice University

  • Santa Clara University

  • Scripps College

  • Skidmore College

  • Southern Methodist University

  • Stanford University

  • Texas Christian University

  • Tufts University

  • Tulane University

  • University of Arizona

  • University of California: Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz

  • University of Chicago

  • University of Colorado Boulder

  • University of Michigan

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • University of Notre Dame

  • University of Oregon

  • University of Pennsylvania

  • University of Southern California

  • University of Washington

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Washington and Lee University

  • Washington University in St. Louis

  • Wellesley College

Use of school name does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by school. Students seeking admission into any institution are encouraged to enroll.