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Secondary essay audits

It is one a.m., you are on the ninth version of why our school, and you have lost the ability to tell whether any of them are any good. That is the specific problem this fixes. Send us the essays, get them back marked line by line, in seven business days.

From
$150
Turnaround
7 business days
Format
Written
Essays included
Unlimited

Read this first

You are buying words, not essays.

Every other service charges per essay, which punishes you for the schools that ask for four short answers instead of one long one. We count words instead. Send eleven essays or send three, it makes no difference to us, as long as the total sits inside the tier you bought.

A worked example. Six schools send you secondaries. Four want a 500 word "why us," one wants three 150 word short answers, one wants a 250 word diversity essay. That is 2,000 words and nine separate pieces of writing. Tier 2 covers all of it for $289, and every one of those nine comes back annotated.

Pick a cap

Three tiers. The only difference is words and depth.

Basic

$150Up to 1,200 words · $0.125 per word

Enough for roughly two or three standard secondaries. The right pick if you are applying to a short list, or testing us before you commit.

  • Unlimited essays inside the cap
  • Three-color annotation on every one
  • Written feedback per essay
  • Back in 7 business days
Buy Basic, $150
Most applicants

Plus

$289Up to 2,400 words · $0.120 per word

The realistic number for a normal school list. Adds the read that matters most once you are writing to many schools at once.

  • Everything in Basic
  • Cross-essay consistency read, so two schools do not receive contradicting versions of who you are
Buy Plus, $289

Platinum

$549Up to 4,800 words · $0.114 per word

For a long list, or for the applicant who is writing to schools with strongly stated missions and wants each essay aimed rather than adapted.

  • Everything in Plus
  • School-mission alignment notes on each essay, against what that specific school says it is looking for
Buy Platinum, $549

Every tier is delivered by a Philippians medical school advisor. We do not write your essays and we do not rewrite them for you. We mark what is wrong, say why, and tell you what to do about it.

The standard

Three colors, and a reason attached to every red one.

The same annotation standard runs across every audit we do, so you never have to guess how seriously to take a comment. A legend sits at the top of every document you get back.

secondary_why_us_v2.docx
Must change Reconsider Working

Your school has always been my top choice because of its excellent reputation and world-class faculty. I want to learn from Dr. Alvarez because her work on rural dialysis access is the thing my county has been missing for a decade.

Must change This sentence works for every school in the country, which means it works for none of them. Reputation and world-class faculty are the two phrases an admissions reader sees most often and remembers least.
Working Named person, named work, and a reason that belongs to you and not to anyone else applying. This is what the first sentence was trying to be.
Illustration of our annotation standard. Not a client document.

Before you buy

The questions we actually get.

What if I go over the word cap?

Any words past your tier's cap are billed at 40 cents per word, and we reach out before charging you anything. Nothing gets quietly left out, and you decide before we go ahead.

My secondaries are arriving one at a time. Do I have to wait and send them together?

No. You get up to three batches within 60 days of buying, which is designed around exactly this. Send what has arrived, keep writing, send the next lot.

The seven business day turnaround runs from each batch, not from your purchase.

Whose writing gets submitted?

Yours. Schools ask for your writing, and that is what goes in.

What you get back is every weak line marked, the reason it is weak, and a prioritized list of what to fix.

Who is actually reading it?

A Philippians medical school advisor who knows this application inside out and marks every audit to the same three-color standard.

Also worth knowing about

What usually comes next.

Not sure which tier

Tell us how many schools, and we will do the arithmetic.

Fifteen minutes, no pitch. Bring your school list and we will work out roughly how many words you are facing and which tier actually covers it.