One-on-one admissions essay coaching
Grades are set. Scores are in. What's left is the only page in the file that sounds like a person - and it is the part almost everyone writes badly, alone, at midnight, in week one of senior year.
Collegevise started because friends and underclassmen kept asking him to read their essays. Enough of them asked that he decided to do it properly.
What we work on
A college essay and a law school personal statement fail for the same reason: the writer describes what happened instead of showing who they became. The work is finding the real story, then cutting everything that isn't it.
Track 01
For juniors and seniors working through the Common App - and for transfer applicants, which Pranav has done himself.
Track 02
Guidance from someone in the middle of 1L, not someone who applied a decade ago and reads about it since.
Who you'd be working with
Pranav is a J.D. candidate at the USC Gould School of Law. He earned his B.S. in Economics from North Carolina State University in two years, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 and election to Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society for the world's top business programs.
He knows admissions recently and from the inside. He assembled his own applications, navigated a transfer, scored a 172 on the LSAT, and wrote the personal statement that brought him here. He was admitted to USC Gould with a $180,000 merit scholarship and chose it over a matching offer from Emory, weighing placement outcomes and the Los Angeles legal market.
Outside the classroom, Pranav spent ten years in scouting. For his Eagle Scout project he raised $750 and built a smart donation box for a Tallahassee eldercare nonprofit - it alerted staff the moment a donation arrived, saving them time and reducing face-to-face contact during the pandemic. He also spent a full school year tutoring elementary students one-on-one, every week from October through June.
His own file
These are Pranav's own results. Collegevise makes no promise about any applicant's admission outcome - no one honest can.
How it works
Thirty minutes, no charge. Talk through where you are and what's due - and send a draft beforehand if you have one, because he'll review it with you on the call. If it isn't a good fit, he'll say so.
One hour at a time, or five at once. Sessions are over video and scheduled around your deadlines - evenings and weekends included.
An invoice follows the session. No deposit, no package locked in before you've seen how he works.
Pricing
No tiers, no retainers, no five-figure packages. Full-service consultancies charge $250 an hour and up.
Free30 minutes
A conversation, not a sales pitch. Send a draft ahead and he'll review it with you, free.
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$3005 × 1 hour · save $75
Enough to take a personal statement from a blank page to a final draft, with room for supplements. Book one session at a time - the package rate is invoiced after your first.
Book your first session$751 hour
One draft, one problem, one hour. Good for a second opinion before you submit.
Book an hourQuestions
No. Coaching means asking the questions that get the real story out of you, showing you where a draft loses a reader, and being honest when a paragraph isn't working. The words stay yours. An essay written by someone else reads like it - admissions officers have seen thousands, and increasingly they run drafts past the same instincts you would.
No. Collegevise is an independent service. Pranav is a student at the USC Gould School of Law, which is biographical information, not an endorsement. The University of Southern California has no involvement in, and no affiliation with, this service.
Book your first session on the calendar like any other. Afterward, Pranav sends an invoice for $300 by Zelle, covering all five sessions, and schedules the remaining four once it clears. So you sit through a real session before committing to the package - and if it isn't for you, you have paid nothing beyond that first hour.
You book a time through the scheduling link. Sessions run over video. Afterward, an invoice comes by email. Nothing is charged before a session happens, and there's no package you have to commit to up front.
For college applicants, the summer before senior year is ideal and October is still workable. For law school, start before you submit rather than after - personal statements improve far more in the drafting than in the editing. That said, if you have a deadline this week, ask.
No, and be wary of anyone who says otherwise. What coaching can do is make sure the one part of the application you control is as good as it can be, and that it sounds like you.
Send a draft ahead and he'll review it on the call - no charge, no obligation. Tell him the deadline you're staring at, and he'll tell you whether he can help.