College Application Editorial Services

About Jessica Kim

Hi, I'm an incoming sophomore at MIT. In addition to MIT, I've been accepted to 5 Ivy League Colleges, selected for several full-ride scholarships at T20s, and won several national scholarships such as the Coke Scholarship and Elks National Scholarship. I have much experience with editing and creative writing, and I'm happy to help high school students brainstorm and edit essays for college and scholarship applications.

Other than first-handedly going through the college application cycle, I have previous experience working for a College Consulting company in South Korea, reviewing friends' applications for the 2023-24 cycle, and giving line-by-line and general feedback as Editor-in-Chief of Polyphony Lit.

Contact: jessicakimwrites@gmail.com

Services Offered

• Essay Brainstorming

Strategies for idea generation

Transforming personal stories into application essays

Finding unique perspectives from extracurriculars

Offering samples of previous essays that worked

• Essay Editing

Refining the Common App Personal Statement

Fine-Tuning Supplemental Essays

Refining the UC Personal Insight Questions

Editing MIT application essays

Refining any scholarship essays

Common App Essay

• Common App Strategy and Overview

Structuring Extracurriculars and Honors sections

Filling in the Additional Information section

Pricing

My rate is $80 per hour.

Schools That Accepted Me

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Princeton University
• Yale University
• University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
• Brown University
• Columbia University - likely letter and John Jay Scholarship
• Duke University - A.B. Duke Scholarship (full ride)
• Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science
• University of California, Berkeley - Computer Science with Regents' & Chancellor's Scholarship
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Engineering CS
• Emory University - Woodruff Scholarship Finalist
• Boston College - Gabelli Presidential Scholarship (full tuition)
• Vanderbilt University - Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship (full tuition)
• Tufts University - STEM Scholarship
• Amherst College - Selected for Access to Amherst (fly-in program)
• Johns Hopkins University - Hodson Trust Scholarship

Other Scholarships and Writing Accolades

• Coca-Cola Scholarship
• Elks National Most Valued Student Scholarship (National Semifinalist)
• Bryan Cameron Impact Scholarship (Finalist)
• US National Youth Poet Laureate (Runner-up)
• National YoungArts Finalist in Writing
• 3-year Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key Winner
• MIT Ilona Karmel Writing Prize Winner
• National Merit Scholarship Finalist

Contact Me

To inquire about services, please email Jessica Kim at jessicakimwrites@gmail.com. Please include your name, interested schools, and the services you are interested in.