JL ACADEMICS offers bespoke start-to-finish counseling on the composition of the College Essay (also known as the “personal statement” or the “Common App Essay”). The College Essay is an applicant’s primary opportunity to speak for themselves — and the battlefield upon which admission decisions are commonly won or lost. The best college essays resist the tempting model of storytelling wherein a conflict is introduced and predictably resolved, and instead purposefully embrace ambiguity and complexity to reflect an applicant’s maturity and humility — not their certainty and assuredness.