Using a highly personalized, results-focused methodology, I guide each student through the full process of college applications, with an emphasis on creating a compelling admissions narrative and brainstorming, outlining, revising, and polishing their essays.

Over 95% of my students get into a Top 100 university and over 80% get into a Top 40 university, with specific placements including MIT, Yale, Columbia, Brown, John Hopkins, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Duke, Swarthmore, Northwestern, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Georgetown, and many, many more.

There are no guarantees with college applications, but I always ensure my students are putting their best foot forward.

About Me

Sara Larner graduated cum laude from Columbia University's Barnard College, where she earned her Bachelor’s in English. Afterward, she went on to University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, where she earned the Masters in Writing that makes her so perfectly suited to help you craft an exemplary essay.

Sara became an independent educational consultant after discovering the unique satisfaction of helping her students get into their dream schools. She'd been tutoring for five years already, and a few of her students asked for help with their college essays. When the acceptances began rolling in, she knew that she wanted to provide this service to others. Since then she has earned a Professional Certificate in College Admissions Counseling from the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC), qualifying her to work for colleges as an admissions counselor and giving her expert insight into the college admissions process from the perspective of the college admissions officials themselves.

With thousands of hours of experience and well over a hundred students placed in top universities, Sara is confident she can guide you through every step of this process, and teach you the techniques necessary to get into the school of your choice. In addition to her own Ivy League education, she's honed a results-focused method that has helped students earn acceptances everywhere from Princeton to MIT. Sara has even helped some students earn likely letters from various Ivy's, including Yale. (For anyone unfamiliar: a likely letter is a letter elite schools send out to top-tier applicants prior to official admission. These are essentially wooing letters, requesting the student refrain from accepting other admission options and indicating that a generous financial package can be expected; each school sends out only a hundred or so every application cycle.)

Sara will work with you to build a college list, draft essays, and then polish said essays until they demonstrate exactly why each particular school needs to admit you.

Please contact Sara for availability. She looks forward to helping you earn that acceptance letter!

Specialty Areas

Application Essay Craft/Review, Arts performing and visual arts applications, portfolios, Auditions, General Ed Counseling

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