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I'm Chris. I help you craft essays
that carry your voice.

This business is just me. There's no rotation of tutors or team behind
the email address. When you book, you get 100% of my expertise,
my advice, and my experience.

Chris, your tutor, hiking

Meet Chris, your tutor

Dual-degree Yale graduate & essay expert

I understand how top applicants can distinguish themselves in a highly competitive admissions landscape. I personally received admissions offers from top universities including Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, UC Berkeley, and over a dozen others. Students I've tutored have duplicated and more than doubled that list.

Over the past decade, I’ve helped students around the world gain entry to top undergraduate programs, graduate schools, internships, and scholarships. I guide students through the process of crafting compelling, authentic personal statements. No ghostwriting or generic templates. No subcontracted tutor farms. Just me, and you, and the writing.

My background spans a wide range of writing: essays, yes, but also speeches, grants, technical documentation, blog posts, plays, and stand-up routines. More importantly, I’ve read even more than I’ve written. That helped me find my own voice from writing, and it will help you too. I curate reading lists for each individual.

I teach the students that I work with, not to write for them. You'll come out confident in your own tone, and it will make a difference in your essay.