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College Essay Coach
Gwendolyn H.

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Hourly Rate: $200

About Gwendolyn


Bio

I’m a professional writer and teacher with a knack for helping young adults through the college essay process. I received a B.A. in English from Yale and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown, where I also taught fiction.

Beyond applications, my aim is to enable students as they grow more skillful, confident, and creative in their writing. I'm warm and highly individualized in my approach. Students come away with improved humanities grades across the board and better prepared for...

I’m a professional writer and teacher with a knack for helping young adults through the college essay process. I received a B.A. in English from Yale and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown, where I also taught fiction.

Beyond applications, my aim is to enable students as they grow more skillful, confident, and creative in their writing. I'm warm and highly individualized in my approach. Students come away with improved humanities grades across the board and better prepared for college.

My students' acceptance record is similar to those of top preparatory schools. The last three years alone include MIT, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Howard, Tufts, U. Wisconsin-Madison, UVA, NYU, Northeastern, and top schools in both Canada and the UK.


Education

Yale
English
Brown
Masters

Policies

  • Tutor’s lessons: In-person
  • Hourly Rate: $200
  • Travel policy: Within 15 miles of Brooklyn, NY 11216
  • Lesson cancellation: 24 hours notice required
  • No background check

  • Your first lesson is backed by our Good Fit Guarantee

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In the last two years, Gwen's high school essay-writing students have been accepted to MIT, Yale, Dartmouth, UC Berkeley, UVA, UT Austin, Tufts and many other schools. As a writer and literary translator, she has received the 2022 UK PEN Translates Award, 2021 Robert B. Silvers Grant for Works-in-Progress, and 2020 Literature Fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book is being being published by Penguin in the US and Pushkin Press in the UK, for major release in May 2024. She holds a B.A. in English from Yale University, where she received the Lawrence W. Lamm Memorial Scholarship in English Literature, as well as an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, where she taught two undergraduate seminars in fiction and received the John Hawkes Prize for Fiction,.
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