Your student knows who they are.
Now let's put it on the page.
While other seniors spend August staring at a blank page, Life Design graduates arrive with their story already told. This is 1:1 essay coaching built around the self-knowledge your student already has.
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the underlying advantage
Most students arrive at the essay with nothing to say.
They sit down in August and stare at a blank page.
They try to reverse-engineer who they are from a list of prompts. The result is generic -- or a resume dressed as self-reflection.
Standard essay coaching tries to patch this. But, it doesn't solve it.
Your student already solved this problem.
In Designing High School, they did the self-knowledge work that most applicants never do. They don't have to use the essay to try to discover who they are -- that work is done.
The essay isn't the time for your student to discover who she is. That work is already done. The essay's job is to say it well.
This is not run-of-the-mill essay coaching. There are no cold prompts, no generic feedback, and no starting from zero. Every session builds on the self-knowledge your students developed in Designing High School.
WHAT THEY BUILT IN LIFE DESIGN -- AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE ESSAYS
The essays that matter most
Three essay types. Eighty to ninety percent of any school's list.
Most college applications require variations of the same three supplemental types -- including every UC Personal Insight Question. Mastering these three unlocks the vast majority of what a typical 8-12 school list demands. Life Design alumni arrive with the raw material for all three already documented.
the process
Designed around the real deadline calendar.
Both tiers are structured to finish well ahead of EA / ED deadlines -- with no scrambling and no August panic.
Choose your program
Two tiers. One standard of coaching.
Both tiers cover the supplemental essay types that appear on 80-90% of school lists. Choose based on your school list size and EA / ED targets.
- His students have been admitted to schools including UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC Davis.
- As an applicant himself, Neil was admitted to all 9 UC campuses, including to UCLA as a Regent's Scholar, and to U. Penn, Brown, and Cornell as an undergraduate. For graduate school, he was admitted to Harvard Kennedy School, University of Chicago (full scholarship), and UC Berkeley (Dean's Scholar), and the RAND Institute's graduate school.
- Former SFUSD teacher and Teach For America Corps Member -- built and taught the life design curriculum your student just completed.
- Led Pearson Education curriculum adopted across 15 high schools reaching 2,000+ students annually -- awarded the Symantec Award for Innovation in Education.
As your student's Life Design coach, he already knows their story. The essay coaching picks up exactly where the program left off -- no intake forms, no starting from scratch.
Program Details
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