​Instant PDF download. Self-paced. Yours to use across every application your kid writes.
Quiet, asynchronous, written feedback only. One submission. One written response. No meetings. No retainer.
Four slots per month. Booking closes when full.
Choose where you'd like to start.
I'm Kristie Schmidt. I write literary memoir, and I've spent twenty-plus years thinking about how language reveals a person.
My coaching is the literary work, applied to the college application.
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I have an A.B. from Smith (with high honors) and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Human Development and Psychology, which is the part of Harvard that studies how teenagers actually think. I'm also a National Writing Project Fellow through SUNY Stony Brook. For eighteen years I taught AP English Language and Composition in a high school,
plus nine overlapping years teaching college Academic Writing through UConn's Early College program. I was trained
as an Essay Specialist by College Essay Guy and have been mentored by a former admission director at Cornell.
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My essay "Molasses Brain" won the 2025 International Amy MacRae Award. The judge, novelist Sharon Butala,
called it "sheer strength of writing" and "admirably delicate touch."
That's the eye I bring to your kid's draft.