J&B Red Program (10 Schools)“Fusing Statistics and Environmental Science for Top Schools” Highlights: J&B created an admissions package for the client, including a Common App essay, resume, activities list, recommendation notes, and supplemental essays for highly-respected colleges and universities. J&B helped the client portray themselves as more than a typical “math” student, utilizing their background in environmental science, music, and journalism to highlight their strengths. The J&B team split the project into two batches, leaving the client time to finalize their school list and submit their admissions material in a timely, organized fashion. The team broke the essay-writing process into three steps to carefully polish and revise the client’s work. Case:J&B worked with the client on an admissions project to Duke, Johns Hopkins, USC, Harvard, Northwestern, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, Yale, UC Berkeley, Princeton, MIT. In addition to helping the client produce a Common App essay and supplemental essays, J&B polished the client’s resume and activities list. As part of the package, the consulting team also provided the client with detailed notes to help their professors write recommendation letters. Background:The client is not a typical “math” student, but rather has a range of skills from environmental science to music to journalism. To highlight the client’s well-roundedness, the J&B team utilized the client’s interest in statistics and interpersonal relationships to craft a humorous and introspective Common App essay. The team also maximized the client’s experience with coding, sustainability, and songwriting to answer supplemental questions from a unique standpoint. As the client hopes to major in environmental science, study statistics, and use both to formulate environmental policies in the future, J&B carefully researched each school’s program to help the client best present their goals. The Process:J&B worked in a two-person team and split the project into two batches and split the first batch into three steps. As the client still needed time to finalize their school list, J&B broke the second batch down into six steps to give the client adequate time to address each school in a timely manner. During the early stages of the project, the J&B team engaged in thought-provoking pre-consulting sessions with the client to gain insights into their perspective/personality/goals. The team used these details to prepare the client’s recommendation notes. For the first steps of the essay writing process, J&B provided the client with detailed outlines for each essay based on the notes the client provided. After the client produced their first drafts, J&B edited them to create stronger narratives, more personal details, and appropriate word counts. J&B also discussed the client’s work experiences and extracurriculars in great detail and refined their resume and activities list in one step each. J&B’s Key Goals: Open communication Creative storytelling Mindful editing/revising In-depth research of schools and/or major requirements
