J&B Red Program (Common App)“Family Ties and Humanitarian Goals: A College Admissions Project” Highlights: J&B helped the client prepare a 650-word Common App essay, supplementary essays, and an updated CV for their admissions to fourteen highly ranked colleges and universities. The J&B team considered the client’s humanitarian goals and community service background, as well as their interest in Sociology, Economics, and Business for each unique essay. J&B worked in a two-person team and split the fourteen schools into two projects. After intensively gathering the client’s ideas, J&B prepared outlines for each of the client’s essays which the client used to prepare their first drafts. J&B polished the final drafts to meet the client’s goals. The Case:J&B worked with the client on admissions projects for fourteen top-tier colleges and universities: Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, Brown, UPenn, Stanford, the UCs, MIT, Yale, Princeton, UMichigan, USC, Washington University, and the University of Chicago. With J&B’s guidance, the client completed their 650-word Common App essay, supplementary essays, and updated their CV by the end of the projects. Background:As the client has a strong interest in Sociology, Economics, and Business, the J&B team helped the client tailor their essays to their specific majors and school programs. The client wanted to emphasize their humanitarian goals and community service background, which J&B helped the client creatively incorporate into their essays based on the client’s personal details/insights. J&B also helped the client express their cultural background and strong connection to their family in an introspective Common App essay. The Process:J&B worked in a two-person team and split the client’s fourteen schools into three batches and two separate projects. At the start of the first project, J&B engaged in three pre-consulting sessions in order to gather as many personal details from the client as possible to help them construct unique narratives. The client then provided the J&B team with a series of notes/ideas for each of their essays for the first batch of schools. J&B met with the client to gather further details, then prepared a series of separate outlines for each supplementary essay. Using J&B’s outlines, the client produced the first draft of their essays, which J&B polished and revised. The J&B team and the client repeated the process for all three batches of schools. J&B also helped the client revise their CV after their first batch of schools so that the client could apply to their early-decisions schools in a timely, organized fashion. J&B’s Key Goals: Creative storytelling Collaboration Careful editing Research
