Sara Larner
4.9Sara Larner
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For anyone and everyone with concerns about your essay—this is for you! Whether you've just finished a first draft or you've polished until your eyes cross and need someone else to take a look, I will provide a full and complete breakdown of your essay's strengths, weaknesses, and what exactly you need to do next. This includes detailed line-notes, if possible (if an essay needs extensive structural changes, line notes are sometimes not productive).
For return students who want me to take a look at how you've implemented my notes on an essay that I have ALREADY REVIEWED—this is for you! You'll get 25% off my base price when submitting THE SAME ESSAY for a second round of feedback. Please do not try to submit an essay that I have not already provided feedback on.
For students who have a few ideas or who aren't sure if their essay answers the prompt—this is for you! Feel free to submit partial or complete drafts, and I'll let you know if your essay works on a conceptual level. If it doesn't, I'll explain why and tell you what questions/concerns a college admissions officer is likely to have. I won't provide line notes, but after this you will qualify to submit a Follow Up Review if you'd like more help.
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Sara Larner
4.9Sara Larner
Sara became a college counselor after discovering the unique satisfaction of helping her students get into their dream schools. She'd been tutoring for five years already, and a few of her students asked for help with their college essays. When the acceptances began rolling in, she knew that she wanted to provide this service to others.
Four years later, with a few thousand hours of experience, Sara is confident she can guide you through every step of this process, and teach you the techniques necessary to get into the school of your choice. In addition to her own Ivy League education, she's honed a results-focused method over the years that has helped students earn acceptances everywhere from Princeton to MIT. Sara has even helped some students earn likely letters from various Ivy's, including Yale. (For anyone unfamiliar: a likely letter is a letter elite schools send out to top-tier applicants prior to official admission. These are essentially wooing letters, requesting the student refrain from accepting other admission options and indicating that a generous financial package can be expected; each school sends out only a hundred or so every application cycle.) She also has a great deal of experience helping students gain admission to BSMD programs and post-graduate schools, including medical and law school.
Sara will work with you to build a college list, draft essays, and then polish said essays until they demonstrate exactly why each particular school needs to admit you.
Awards and Recognition:
Sara graduated cum laude from Barnard, receiving the Ethel Stone Lefrak Award for her literary analysis, and the Sidney Miner Poetry Prize for original compositions. Her scripts have won Best Hour-Long Teleplay (Wildsound Film Festival) and Best First Time Screenwriter (Chicago Genre Competition), and placed in numerous other competitions, including the Oscar's Nichol Screenwriting Competition. Her prose fiction has been professionally published in several fiction anthologies. Sara is a full member in good standing of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC).
Please contact Sara for availability. She looks forward to helping you earn that acceptance letter!
Review options
Topic Check | $15 + 14 cents per word
FOLLOW UP - For Return Students Only | $20 + 12 cents per word
Full Review | $25 + 15 cents per word