Welcome to our easy-to-use Essay Review Shopping Cart
All of our essay reviews can now be ordered from a simple menu-driven product list resembling an online store (see PayPal drop-down below). You prepay for our service using a fixed-price model and get full buyer protection from PayPal.
Our new automated processing reduces our manual time-keeping, accounting, book-keeping, invoicing, and collections procedures at the back end. We are pleased to pass those savings on to you by lowering our fees.
How do our reviews work?
We do both a first pass critique (creative review) and a second pass finalization (professional editing) for one low price. Two creative writers will review your essay during each pass to replicate the environment of a college admissions team. [An exception is the resume review which only includes one final pass].
First Pass: We will provide you with genuine
feedback on the creative and intellectual structure of your essay. Essays should be
deeply personal experiences, with specific and concrete instances supporting your narrative. A good essay should reflect - meaning it should show what you learned and how you intend to apply your experiences, even if subtle. Duke University says that its admissions officers review submissions “primarily to understand the student’s lived experience." We will provide you with pointed, actionable tips and comments so that your essay enlivens your personal story.
Second Pass: During the second pass, you will send us the revised essay for us to
professionally edit and finalize for submission to college portals. We do an end-to-end review of every
word and punctuation, citing as our favorite story, the $5-million dollar comma. We use Grammarly Premium to check your essay for
correctness, clarity, engagement, and delivery - and for the
all-important plagiarism checks.
For more information, including examples of a first pass review, please read our primer on college essays, which describes our proprietary two-pass review process. For questions, please contact us on WhatsApp or by email at rajkamal.rao@raoadvisors.com or bhagyashri.k.rao@raoadvisors.com.
PRODUCT CATALOG
All reviews include both a first and second pass
- Any essay up to 650 words: $379
Your essay could be the Common App, ApplyTex, Texas A&M Main, the Coalition App, or any other platform essay.
You may also submit multiple supplements for the same college totaling up to 650 words as long as they are in the same document. For example, UT Austin has two supplements totaling 600 words; Penn has three supplements totaling 600 words; UIUC has three supplements totaling 450 words. You may not mix and match supplements from different institutions into the same document. - Any essay up to 350 words: $199
Your essay could be a single supplement for any school (such as a single supplement for UT Austin, Texas A&M, or a supplement from the University of California).
Or, a single institution which has two supplements totaling up to 350 words as long as both are in the same document. You may not mix and match supplements from different institutions into the same document.
- Common App/TAMU REPEAT First Pass: $129
- Any Supplement REPEAT First Pass: $99
- Resume review (one final pass): $189
- Graduate School SOP up to 1,200 words: $398
- Any other essay: Please contact us on WhatsApp
Please select from the product drop down below and choose from among the various payment options to complete the transaction. After you receive the order confirmation from PayPal, please let us know the details so that we can match your order to the essay submission request.
How to submit your essay for review: Please click here for our essay submission page.
Refunds: We understand that plans can change, so we offer a full refund if we have not yet begun reviewing an essay. Otherwise all sales are final.
If you want to request a refund, please contact us on WhatsApp within two hours of purchase. Or by email at rajkamal.rao@raoadvisors.com or bhagyashri.k.rao@raoadvisors.com.
