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Admissions & Essay Expert | Founder of a 46,000-person Nonprofit
Ren Y.

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BUILDING A STORY NO ONE ELSE CAN TELL
Hi, I’m Ren. I believe education should be built around purpose, not process. I help students with the parts of the college application that set them apart: the personal statement, supplemental essays, extracurriculars, and the strategy that ties them together. I graduated high school at 16 and figured out the Common App on my own, then graduated from NYU and worked in finance. Now I give students the support I didn’t have.

HOW I WORK
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BUILDING A STORY NO ONE ELSE CAN TELL
Hi, I’m Ren. I believe education should be built around purpose, not process. I help students with the parts of the college application that set them apart: the personal statement, supplemental essays, extracurriculars, and the strategy that ties them together. I graduated high school at 16 and figured out the Common App on my own, then graduated from NYU and worked in finance. Now I give students the support I didn’t have.

HOW I WORK
We start with purpose, mapping your interests, strengths, and values into a clear direction. Then we turn that direction into an extracurricular project that helps real people, with results you can point to in your activities list and essays. Finally, we tell the true story. Think of your essays as a multi-course meal: most students serve carrots in every course, repeating the same interest across their personal statement and every supplement. I make each essay, from the Common App personal statement to “Why Us” and community essays, show a different side of you, so together they put you in a category of one. We brainstorm through questioning, then revise line by line until every sentence earns its place.

EXPERIENCE
I have mentored many high school students in New York, one on one and in small in-person workshops. At 20, I co-founded the New York Philosophical Society, a nonprofit that hosts philosophy discussions for over 46,000 guests a year, where I lead our public school partnerships and co-designed a philosophy curriculum for high school students. As a nonprofit director who writes recommendation letters, I know real impact from padding, and so do admissions readers. My students have been admitted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, UPenn, Cornell, NYU, and USC, among many others.

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BS New York University
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Career Development

Career Development

I graduated from high school at 16, earned my degree from New York University, and worked in finance before co-founding the New York Philosophical Society at 20, a nonprofit that now hosts over 46,000 guests a year. As a director there, I lead our public school partnerships and write recommendation letters, so I see firsthand what employers, programs, and colleges look for in a young person. I also founded Wright Fellows, an eight-week program where high school students build real projects with mentors and present them at a Demo Day. With each student, I start by mapping their interests, strengths, and values into a clear direction, then turn that into a concrete next step, whether that is a project, an internship, a résumé, or an interview they walk into prepared.
Finance

Finance

I graduated from New York University and worked in finance, so I teach the subject the way it is actually used on the job, not just the way it appears in a textbook. I later co-founded the New York Philosophical Society at 20 and help run it as a nonprofit that serves over 46,000 guests a year, which gave me hands-on experience with budgets, partnerships, and the real decisions behind the numbers. I work with high school and college students on core concepts like financial statements, time value of money, and valuation, and I also help students who are curious about finance careers understand what the work looks like day to day. In every lesson, we connect each idea to a real company or real-world decision so it sticks long after the test.
Philosophy

Philosophy

At 20, I co-founded the New York Philosophical Society, a nonprofit that now hosts philosophy discussions for over 46,000 guests a year, and I have led and moderated many of those conversations myself. I also lead our public school partnerships and co-designed a philosophy curriculum for high school students, so I have taught everything from ethics and political philosophy to the history of ideas to students meeting philosophy for the first time. My lessons are built around questioning: we read the primary text closely, test the argument against real examples, and push until the student can defend or challenge it in their own words. Whether a student needs help with a philosophy class, a paper, or simply wants to think more clearly, I meet them where they are and make the ideas feel alive rather than abstract.
Writing

Writing

I help middle school, high school, and college students with school writing, including argumentative essays, literary analysis, research papers, and the short responses that show up on tests and applications. After graduating from New York University, I worked in finance, where writing had to be clear, short, and convincing on the first read, and I bring that same standard to every student I work with. As a director at the New York Philosophical Society, I write recommendation letters, partner proposals, and public materials, and I co-designed a curriculum that teaches high school students to build and defend an argument. In our sessions, we start with what the student is really trying to say, shape it into a strong thesis and outline, and then work on structure and word choice until the writing is sharp and sounds like them.
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