Empathetic and highly effective The process is excellent and the team fantastic. Our son worked with Cat and her ability to connect deeply with him and to help him think through and articulate his passions were central to his journey. In a word - awesome.

CEG is absolutely worth the investment Collaborating with CEG's counselor and essay coach was incredibly valuable; they transformed what can often be a daunting and tense process into a seamlessly smooth experience. Working with CEG's counselor took so much of the stress out of the process. Our counselor, Morgan, was always there to offer sound, experienced advice and really walked us through a pretty intense process of applying to several highly competitive schools. Morgan met with us regularly and patiently answered our many questions and gave the best advice. She always responded to our questions with numerous resources and suggestions. We are incredibly grateful for her partnership. My daughter's essay coach was a wonderful coach, who really helped her refine her voice and make her essays stand out in a way that was unique to her. She pushed my daughter when she needed to be pushed, and for that, I am very grateful as it took some of the stress off of our relationship. Ultimately, her coach, Shira, really helped my daughter craft some fantastic essays that (I believe) led her to gain acceptance to a number of fantastic schools. Overall, we are incredibly grateful and wholeheartedly recommend CEG. I'll conclude by saying that their approach, while at first seemed arduous, was absolutely worth the time and effort. Ethan and his team have created a program that's designed to deliver what I believe colleges genuinely want: an essay that is authentic and original; one that distills the essence of the student's experiences and perspectives into a compelling narrative, showcasing their unique voice and insights.

Frustrating Experience It's important to know that with the current payment structure, the flat rate is the same for 3 or 6 essays, regardless of when you start. For your best value, I would encourage signing up several months before their hard end date of 10/31. I paid in full in mid-July, with the promise my son could start right away, hoping he would get most of the work done before starting a packed senior year. While it took my son a couple weeks to get his intake forms done, several e-mail requests were required to get started with a coach, with no real work going until mid-August. The coach we got was pretty good, but despite my requests to keep it moving, dragged out the process with the other coaches reviewing the work so it wasn't done until the day the applications were due. Because of this, I wasn't able to review the essays myself before the first round were submitted. When I read them before the second round was due, I noticed a couple typos in the Common App essay. Given the cost and that this was supposed to be edited by 3 experts, I was greatly disappointed. I will say they definitely helped my son get his writing done and it was much better than it would have been otherwise, but will look to see what else is out there next time around.

Highly priced for low level at best mediocre work. Highly priced, extremely mediocre standards followed. The essays that they helped to write were criticized and called lack lustre and medicocre by three other professionals. The worst thing they made my daughter beleive she had solid essays to apply and ended up using that for all her major apps. she got rejected from her ED. We decided to revisit all materials to make sure the remaining apps can be better. This is when we got feedback from three independent college essay professionals and found the problem. She rewrote all her essays again with another persons help investing more money all during the christmas holidays. I am very upset, my daughter lost her best shot at admissions. The new essay help professional who helped my daughter works for college essay guy and also operates on his own. We found his good reviews on the tutoring website where we located him. I did not tell him that it his own companys work that he is criticising. What better proof we can get for lack of ethics and quality control by this company. All their essay helpers are different and the final quality control is just an eyewash. They never said anything rather praised all the work at the final review. I am contemplating filing a case against them for specially misguiding my daughter which cost her the first important round of opportunities. Stay away from them. Independent profesisonals are cheaper and better and you can work by the hour with them. This is a money making nexus. Don't get fooled by the large number of 5 star reviews, they are for their online resources and courses and not for their 6000 plus dollar services.

College Essay Guy is THE WAY TO GO! The insight into how college applications should read and the support in building cohesive essays and applications is invaluable and certainly something we would never have navigated well on our own. Would we have have had some success? Probably, but not the kind of application success that we had! My daughter was accepted to 5 of her 6 schools and is attending a top choice school-- cannot recommend enough.